Directed by Hal Ashby
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Flix)
Alcoholic police detective Jeff Bridges finally goes over the edge during a binge, wakes up in rehab, loses his job and his wife. After an AA meeting, a hooker invites him to a party. Although he can't remember her, he goes anyway, where he meets her slimey drug dealing gang headed by Andy Garcia in an early role. She fears for her life and asks him for help, but she is murdered before he can do anything. He vows to track down her killer, enlisting her hooker friend Rosanna Arquette. After an antagonistic start, they strike up an unlikely romance, and together take down Garcia and his empire. Laced with violence and profanity befitting its setting and characters, this may have been too much for the mainstream crowd of 1986 and has been unfairly maligned. Bridges is excellent as always, and Garcia is intense, although he does wear bad 80s suits.
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