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For Mia Sara admirers, this movie is the best exhibition of her beauty and talents of anything she's done. Her lead role gives her plenty of screen time and acting range, and you'll actually feel as if you've gotten to know her a little. In the DVD featurette, director Egleson explains this interesting little made-for-TV pic about a love triangle set in Manhattan in the late 80's: 1.)It was made for PBS's "American Playhouse" series 2.) It was based on a play by Keith Reddin 3.)It draws heavily from Jean Luc Godard's "Contempt" (1963). Ms. Sara plays a beautiful young fashion model/actress who gradually gains her own sense of identity in the tumult of TWO more or less abusive relationships. Adrian Pasdar and Dennis Boutsikaris are fine as the two boyfriends, more insecure than they are bad. Among the many surprising things about this movie are a haunting orchestral music score by (apparently) Pat Metheny, and the appearance of the artist Jean Michel Basquiat as a homeless graffiti artist. Some may find the privileged characters superficial, but overall I highly recommend this earnest film - it deals with fidelity, impermanence, the making of film, the meaning of art, political commitment, and much else that you wouldn't expect to find from the Netflix blurb! And Ms. Sara's stirring beauty and fine acting leave you a bit wistful, wishing she had done more like this....

Very good made-for-television thriller with Fahey as ex-cop who is now a principled bad guy, and Sara as the femme fatale he falls for. Both leads plus Ben Gazzarra as the police detective are fine. This might've merited a feature film production, I think. Lush music score with trumpet is great, as another reviewer said. Frank Mckenna(Fahey) cracks a safe and delivers the contents to an associate, but is shot in the back on the way out. Blinded temporarily, he escapes to Mexico to recuperate, where he meets the mysterious Chandler Strange (Sara) and love ensues. Frank's vision returns, but not before Chandler has departed, and Frank returns to the States himself to settle scores. However, he finds that his little heist has caught him in a web far larger than he expected. His ex-partner, detective Ira Gold (Gazzarra), is now on his trail, Chandler reappears, and principled Frank must devise a way to get the girl, keep the loot, and make sure the REAL bad guys go down! You will not be disappointed with this solid little TV pic.