Presented with an excellent transfer, DVD extras include a vintage featurette. It was kind of like watching paint dry."). Meanwhile, Harry finds that his wife Ellen is cheating on him, and he has difficulties in handling the situation. Some might find the Alan Sharp script needlessly complicated, but the plot twists keep Night Moves from lapsing into cliché (and the film boasts one of the all-time classic digs at French cinema: "I saw a Rohmer film once. Harry discovers that the runaway girl has a promiscuous life and uses drugs, and he tracks down her last boyfriend Quentin, who works as a mechanic on the sets. Also noteworthy are Jennifer Warren, as Crawford's classy mistress Susan Clark, playing Hackman's unfaithful wife and James Woods, who makes a memorable appearance as a smarmy mechanic. Synopsis Private detective and former football player Harry Moseby gets hired on to what seems a standard missing person case, as a former Hollywood actress whose only major roles came thanks to being married to a studio mogul wants Moseby to find and return her daughter. Melanie Griffith, barely 18 and making her film debut, sparkles as the wayward nymphet, and John Crawford is excellent as her stepdad. detective Harry Moseby (Gene Hackman) has problems. The Beatty-Dunaway biographical crime film perhaps remains the most critically acclaimed part of the directors resume, but a lot of people still remember his. Hackman, superb as always, is backed by an unusually strong supporting cast. Starring: Gene Hackman, James Woods, Melanie Griffith Director: Arthur Penn Plot Synopsis L.A. The plot, which resembles those employed in the private-eye novels of Ross MacDonald, is far from direct, with the digressions carrying just as much narrative weight as the principal story thread. Arthur Penn's 1975 movie stars Gene Hackman as a Los Angeles-based private detective hired to find a faded actress' runaway daughter, a search that eventually takes him to Florida, where he gets tangled up in a smuggling operation run by the girl's stepfather. Although this film is classified as a thriller, it's not the sort that gets pulses racing: Night Moves eschews stereotypical action and overt melodrama in favor of mood, atmosphere, and psychological tension.
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