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Canadian actor/director Philip Borsos made a couple of interesting films before an untimely death in his early forties, including The Grey Fox (1982) and this crime thriller starring Kurt Russell as p... read more read more...olice beat reporter Malcolm Anderson. Happily abandoning the Miami Daily for which he's labored for years, he takes a job on a small town paper hoping to take life in the slow lane for a time. Of course, he's soon caught up in a career-making story, after a serial killer (Richard Jordan) likes his account of a murder he's committed and decides to use the journalist as his mouthpiece. As the killings continue, Anderson begins to receive national attention, and the Numbers Killer, motivated primarily by a desire for the limelight, becomes jealous, and decides to kidnap Anderson's girlfriend (Mariel Hemingway) to teach him a lesson. As he has with Anderson, the killer soon develops a relationship of sorts with the woman, and slowly reveals the workings of his bizarre personality while the police search desperately for the pair. ~ Michael Costello, Rovi

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R, 1 hr. 46 min.

Directed by: Phillip Borsos

Release Date: February 15, 1985

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DVD Release Date: May 22, 2001

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  • ouisch27
    October 22, 2006
    ouisch27
    Serial Killers before serial killers was cool. Russell is very good, Hemingway is too, but their chemistry could be better. The villian is excellent

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Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
August 22, 2004
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality and Practice

A gripping thriller that also challenges us to contemplate the ethical responsibilities of journalists. Full Review

Rob Thomas
September 11, 2003
Rob Thomas, Capital Times (Madison, WI)

Unsatisfying mix of "Red Dragon" and "Absence of Malice"

October 7, 2008
Variety

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Janet Maslin
August 30, 2004
Janet Maslin, New York Times

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Philip Martin
August 8, 2005
Philip Martin, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

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Emanuel Levy
July 16, 2005
Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com

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Jake Euker
July 29, 2004
Jake Euker, F5 (Wichita, KS)

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June 30, 2004
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June 26, 2003
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Derek Adams
June 24, 2006
Derek Adams, Time Out

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    • Alan Delour: [on the phone with Anderson] Ever try to describe a-a smell?
    • Malcolm Anderson: [pauses]...Why?
    • Alan Delour: Ummm......You're going to smell something that's going to test your writing abilities. It has a sweetness to it, and uh,..at the same time it reaches into your body and twists your insides. But the odd thing is that once you smell it, you know exactly what it is, without having to look. 651, Nautilus,...got that?
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