Amazon.com video review:
L.A. Confidential director Curtis
Hanson had been knocking around Hollywood for several years helming
B-grade fare when he wrote and directed this crisp Hitchcock
homage. Steve Guttenberg plays a guy who is fooling around with his
boss's wife (Isabelle Huppert). When she witnesses an attempted rape
from his apartment, he agrees to be the one to report it. But he
didn't see it and his story begins to fall apart; soon the cops begin
to look at him as a suspect. His life becomes increasingly complex:
Before he knows it, he is on the run for murder, framed for a crime he
didn't commit with seemingly no way to prove his
innocence. Guttenberg, who has built a career on roles in sub-B films,
rose to the occasion (though his subsequent taste in material didn't
improve) and Hanson gave the film enough suspenseful twists to keep
the audience guessing. --Marshall Fine
