CrimeThriller

Twilight

- Some people can buy their way out of anything. Except the past.

A retired detective accepts a simple task, unaware that it will tear open old, forgotten, but deadly wounds.

Release Date : 1998-03-06

Language :English

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : CinehausParamount PicturesScott Rudin Productions

Production Country : United States of America

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Character Name : Harry Ross

Original Name : Paul Newman

Gender : Male

Character Name : Catherine Ames

Original Name : Susan Sarandon

Gender : Female

Character Name : Jack Ames

Original Name : Gene Hackman

Gender : Male

Character Name : Mel Ames

Original Name : Reese Witherspoon

Gender : Female

Character Name : Lt. Verna Hollander

Original Name : Stockard Channing

Gender : Female

Character Name : Raymond Hope

Original Name : James Garner

Gender : Male

Character Name : Reuben Escobar

Original Name : Giancarlo Esposito

Gender : Male

Character Name : Jeff Willis

Original Name : Liev Schreiber

Gender : Male

Character Name : Gloria Lamar

Original Name : Margo Martindale

Gender : Female

Character Name : Capt. Phil Egan

Original Name : John Spencer

Gender : Male

Character Name : Lester Ivar

Original Name : M. Emmet Walsh

Gender : Male

Character Name : Verna's Partner

Original Name : Peter Gregory

Gender : Male

Character Name : Mexican Bartender

Original Name : Rene Mujica

Gender : Male

Character Name : Younger Cop

Original Name : Patrick Malone

Gender : Male

Character Name : Water Pistol Man

Original Name : Lewis Arquette

Gender : Male

Character Name : Garvey's Bartender

Original Name : Michael Brockman

Gender : Male

Character Name : Police Stenographer

Original Name : April Grace

Gender : Female

Character Name : EMS Worker

Original Name : Clint Howard

Gender : Male

Character Name : Paramedic

Original Name : John Cappon

Gender : Male

Character Name : Young Cop #2

Original Name : Neil Mather

Gender : Male

Character Name : Crime Scene Detective

Original Name : Ron Sanchez

Gender : Male

Character Name : Interrogation Officer

Original Name : Jack Wallace

Gender : Male

Character Name : Carl

Original Name : Jeff Joy

Gender : Male

Character Name : Cop

Original Name : Jonathan Scarfe

Gender : Male

Character Name : Beth Koski (uncredited)

Original Name : Stephanie Beaton

Gender : Female

Character Name : Young cop #1

Original Name : Jason Clarke

Gender : Male

Reviews

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

2022-09-03

Whilst this boasts a really strong cast, it isn't really anything much to write home about as thriller. Retired cop "Ross" (Paul Newman) lives with the wealthy, but terminally ill, actor "Ames" (Gene Hackman) and his wife "Catherine" (Susan Sarandon). When a young girl is kidnapped, he is asked to deliver the ransom money - but as ever, no good deed goes unpunished, and soon he is embroiled in a twenty year old cold case involving her former husband that becomes distinctly perilous! James Garner appears and somehow that just put me in mind of one of the episodes from the "Rockford Files" upon which this could easily have been based. The cast are on screen, but they - especially Hackman - don't really seem to care. Their efforts are flat - not helped by an unremarkable screenplay and a plot that offers us nothing at all new. Indeed, one has to wonder what Paul Newman saw in it when he accepted the part. It's fairly clear to the audience who is pulling the strings and thereafter it's all just a procedural effort made watchable only by the charisma that is on the screen in spades. It is aptly named for the two leading gents; I doubt this is a film they would have touched in their prime.

JPV852

@JPV852

2022-12-05

Great cast in a so-so neo-noir thriller. Paul Newman, Gene Hackman and Susan Sarandon were great and Newman's scenes with Hackman was some of the highlights. Also get to see Reese Witherspoon (and all her glory) and Liev Schreiber in supporting roles, along with James Garner who was always great even in a smaller role here. But the script and noir never quite clicked for me and the ending was a bit predictable, however at the very least this never dragged. **3.0/5**