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21 January 1985 (USA) morePlot:
The publisher of a celebrity gossip tabloid sets out to destroy an aging actor, whose career is foundering and who is also facing a battle with alcoholism. | add synopsisUser Comments:
Dissolution of A Friendship more (5 total)Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Burt Lancaster | ... | Harold Fallen |
 | Lauren Hutton | ... | Meg North |
 | Pamela Reed | ... | Helen Grant |
 | Robert Urich | ... | Ben Rowan |
 | Peter Jurasik | ... | Simon McKey |
| Bobby Di Cicco | ... | Platte (as Bobby DiCicco) |
| Trey Wilson | ... | Paul Brown |
| Susan Peretz | ... | Missus Hart |
 | Penelope Windust | ||
| Douglas Rowe | (as Doug Rowe) | |
| Belita Moreno | ||
| Jim Baker | (as Jim B. Baker) | |
| Lois De Banzie | ... | Mrs. Skye (as Lois de Banzie) |
 | Frances McDormand | ||
| Rance Howard | ... | Mr. Bell |
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Continuity: At the checkout counter in the grocery store Helen's son picks up the same tin of cookies twice. moreFAQ
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Over and over...Money is the root of all evil.
Helen Grant needs money and her writing assignment will not be published for over a year.
Enter Burt Lancaster, head of a vicious gossip newspaper that is in the process of destroying an alcoholic actor.
He promises Helen the world. He lures her out to California where he wines and dines her. Beautiful house, expense account, good schools for her son, great salary, great everything. Lead us not into temptation, but Helen will not be delivered from evil.
Lancaster had hired her because she is best friends with the actor he wants to destroy-Robert Urich along with his wife, her college room mate played nicely by Lauren Hutton.
When Helen destroys papers that show that Hutton is paying the insurance on her husband's contract, Lancaster makes sure to write the story stating that Helen had written this up. This destroys her friendship as well as the Urich character, who suffers a fatal heart attack.
At the funeral, Hutton spits at Helen. Helen takes pictures of the deceased and hands them over to Lancaster exclaiming that she wants the job. She has become a real stinker now. Money is certainly the root of all evil.