Storyline

This Michael Apted-directed crime melodrama features Stacy Keach as Jim Naboth, a Scotland Yard cop on the skids, suffering from depression and alcoholism. He is summoned by Foreman (Edward Fox), a British security expert whose wife Jill (Carol White) and daughter are being held hostages by kidnappers until Foreman pays the crooks a million-dollar-plus ransom. Jim has to marshal his forces and regain his clarity to save Foreman's family. The pressure is even more intense for Jim, since Foreman's wife, Jill also happens to be his former spouse.

Plot Keywords

gangster, based on novel, kidnapping, ransom, private detective, hostage, dead dog, public nudity, forced to strip, female full frontal nudity, neo noir, nurse, girl, undressing, male rear nudity, mother daughter relationship, drinking, poliziottesco, gang, beating

Short Review

...a shockingly hard-as-nails urban thriller...

Trailer

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