Fourth Story

A great romantic thriller with wonderful characters. Mark Harmon shines as a private detective more at ease in a library than carrying a gun. Mimi Rogers is brilliant as the mysterious grieving widow and the film is extremely well made with a catchy Jazz music score and beautiful photography. A must-see.

A wonderfully filmed, deliciously scored and brilliantly acted contemporary thriller. Mark Harmon plays a private eye the likes of which hasn't been seen often and Mimi Rogers is perfect as the woman with the missing husband who hires him. The wonderful direction of Ivan Passer makes this a classic in its own right.

Fourth Story is a film that bears repeated viewings with ease.

The actors are perfectly cast and have an easy chemistry with each other (and not just Mark Harmon and Mimi Rogers - all the actors are perfectly cast from the biggest to the smallest part!) while the script is a model of clarity and fun that most writers would do well to emulate.

The music score is a joy and works like gangbusters.

It makes you wonder why most directors think of Jazz as a fad when it can be made to work so well in so many settings.

Overall it is a very worthy film that I can only hope will have a DVD release very soon.

This straight to video Viacom production, makes for quite an engrossing, entertaining watch, though not perfect. The premise of husband, leaving wifie, and disappearing, isn't of course, new, but there's kind of more to run with here, as the movie progresses. But also having Mark Harmon in this, is a great and rewarding choice for the viewer, as loving Harmon. He's the PI you want, when the cops aren't delivering. And of course. Hot wifie, Rodgers and Harmon, strike up an affair, kind of putting them in a bad light with LAPD, notably our comic duo, one of them, Gleason, who I love, not Jackie, and I'm glad he was in this. M Emmet Walsh as Harmon's friend, and business aquaintance was sort of wasted in this, and I feel he's playing type again, here in these smaller offerings. (just think Narrow Margin). As to the why's, of the disappearance, it was hard to accept, but I loved the motive. Just another sick puppy let loose in LA, I guess. Nice car chase, and a great 5 sec bare buttock Harmon moment. Would of liked better music in this one. Some predicabilities, and I did make out Harmon's real place in this story, before the confess, reveal. Nice rain shot scenes too.

Mark Harmon plays a detective who doesn't carry a gun, more at ease sifting through the newspaper collection of the library than in a gun battle.

The story and direction are equally compelling and a masterful cast and great music score make this movie an undiscovered gem of a detective story.