A strange and occasionally lurid pot boiler about a bank teller who gets caught up in the murder investigation of her drug-dealing hookup.
The pacing is sluggish at times with the titular murder not occurring until nearly halfway through the film. Debra Winger is wonderful in the lead role, bringing a lack of showiness and a raw vulnerability to the part, but the script lets her down. Besides Mike being good in the sack, we can't understand why she's so drawn to him and so eager to risk her own life to solve this case.
John Barry provides a pretty score that seems at odds with the grit of the film itself and the finale does have some thrills even if everything gets resolved a little too easily for Winger's character.
The pacing is sluggish at times with the titular murder not occurring until nearly halfway through the film. Debra Winger is wonderful in the lead role, bringing a lack of showiness and a raw vulnerability to the part, but the script lets her down. Besides Mike being good in the sack, we can't understand why she's so drawn to him and so eager to risk her own life to solve this case.
John Barry provides a pretty score that seems at odds with the grit of the film itself and the finale does have some thrills even if everything gets resolved a little too easily for Winger's character.