Police Sergeant Paula Prentiss is not pleased when she is partnered with perpetually hungover Robert Foxworth. She is almost frantic with boredom when their first case is Barbara Babcock's show dog being kidnapped.
It's a hilarious black comedy, filled with misfits and losers, based on Joseph Wambaugh's fifth novel. He hated the way they made his first book into a movie, so for the second time he raised the money himself to maintain control. It works very nicely, even though I found Foxworth not very interesting; first he's a drunk who keeps falling asleep, but when he sobers up he's a very romantic Russian who charms all the ladies. I just don't think he pulls it off. Still, the little vignettes, from Harry Dean Stanton as the dog groomer/kidnapper, to Richard Dix -- not that one -- as Foxworth's very Russian brother, to James Wood as the fiddler, make this an entertaining movie.
It's a hilarious black comedy, filled with misfits and losers, based on Joseph Wambaugh's fifth novel. He hated the way they made his first book into a movie, so for the second time he raised the money himself to maintain control. It works very nicely, even though I found Foxworth not very interesting; first he's a drunk who keeps falling asleep, but when he sobers up he's a very romantic Russian who charms all the ladies. I just don't think he pulls it off. Still, the little vignettes, from Harry Dean Stanton as the dog groomer/kidnapper, to Richard Dix -- not that one -- as Foxworth's very Russian brother, to James Wood as the fiddler, make this an entertaining movie.