Her Alibi (1989)

User Rating:

5.2/10   

Director:

Bruce Beresford

Writer (WGA):

Charlie Peters (written by)

Release Date:

3 February 1989 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Crime | Mystery | Romance

Tagline:

Falling for a beautiful woman can be murder!

Plot:

A writer of BAD detective novels is in full writers' block. He pretends to be the alibi of a beautiful...

Plot Keywords:

Detective | Writer's Block | Parking Lot | Voice Over | Vomit Scene

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Tom Selleck	...	Phil Blackwood
Paulina Porizkova	...	Nina
William Daniels	...	Sam
James Farentino	...	Frank Polito
Hurd Hatfield	...	Troppa
Ronald Guttman	...	'Lucy' Comanescu
Victor Argo	...	Avram
Patrick Wayne	...	Gary Blackwood
Tess Harper	...	Sally Blackwood
Bill Smitrovich	...	Farrell
Bobo Lewis	...	Rose
Jane Welch	...	Millie
Austin Hay	...	Oliver
W. Benson Terry	...	FX
Joan Copeland	...	Audrey

Runtime:

94 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | Romanian | Spanish

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Iceland:L | Australia:PG | Argentina:13 | Finland:K-8 | Netherlands:AL | Norway:15 | Sweden:11 | USA:PG | UK:PG | Singapore:PG | Germany:12

Filming Locations:

Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Company:

Warner Bros. Pictures

Trivia:

Several scenes in this movie take place at an event known as "The Funeral of Grimaldi". This is a reference to Joseph Grimaldi (1778-1837), who is the most celebrated English clown in history, and just like in the movie, there really is a "Funeral of Grimaldi" held every year on the first Sunday in February, at the All Saints' Church in London.

Goofs:

Continuity: When Phil and Sam are in the restaurant at the beginning, and the camera is on Phil, a couple stroll by outside the window. The man has a boombox on his shoulder. The shot cuts to Sam and then cuts right back to Phil, and that same couple is strolling by the window in the same spot.

Quotes:

Phil Blackwood: As he lifted the 400-pound weights above his head, he was in agony... but he bore it in silence.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Saturday Night Live: Bob Saget/TLC (#20.19)" (1995)

Soundtrack:

TUTTI FRUTTI

Fairly amusing "comedy-thriller" but sort of lame at the same time

Tom Selleck is the titular character, "her alibi," who provides a beautiful murder suspect with a false alibi because he believes she is innocent. However, once he brings her back to his house, he begins to believe perhaps he was wrong - and now she is trying to murder him so that he cannot go back on his word.

Selleck's character also happens to be a mystery writer of cheap paperback books so he uses what's happening in his life as a parallel to his story, so at moments throughout the film we hear voice-overs of the story being narrated and it's played for comedy (example: Selleck makes a lot of noise while spying on the murder suspect, then in voice-over he reads a line from the book he's writing and says that the character in the book "quietly snuck up on the girl.").

Not a great movie, but it will entertain you.