Kathleen Turner stars as private detective V.I. Warshawski and friends call her
Vickie. Clients and foes have all kinds of other things and she earns the praises
and the brickbats.
I always have thought of Kathleen Turner in the 80s as one of those throwback stars to the golden age of the studio system. She always carried herself that way. She exudes glamor, maybe a little too much glamor to be quite right for a female action star.
Nevertheless she does what she can in the title role and this plot has her ditching her old tried and true boyfriend Jay O. Sanders and hooking up with Stephen Meadows. Meadows is a father and actually wants Turner to be a kind of babysitter for his precocious daughter Angela Goethals. Not exactly her line of work, but the money is good and she likes Meadows.
It becomes a case and a security job when Meadows is killed in a boat explosion. Goethals is convinced this is no accident and Turner stays on the case.
This is one strange family, Meadows wife and Goethals mother Nancy Paul divorced him and married Meadows brother Charles McCaughan. But you won't know how strange until the very end. The young girl is lucky that Turner has her back.
It's not a bad film, but the moviegoing public just couldn't see Kathleen Turner as an action hero.
I always have thought of Kathleen Turner in the 80s as one of those throwback stars to the golden age of the studio system. She always carried herself that way. She exudes glamor, maybe a little too much glamor to be quite right for a female action star.
Nevertheless she does what she can in the title role and this plot has her ditching her old tried and true boyfriend Jay O. Sanders and hooking up with Stephen Meadows. Meadows is a father and actually wants Turner to be a kind of babysitter for his precocious daughter Angela Goethals. Not exactly her line of work, but the money is good and she likes Meadows.
It becomes a case and a security job when Meadows is killed in a boat explosion. Goethals is convinced this is no accident and Turner stays on the case.
This is one strange family, Meadows wife and Goethals mother Nancy Paul divorced him and married Meadows brother Charles McCaughan. But you won't know how strange until the very end. The young girl is lucky that Turner has her back.
It's not a bad film, but the moviegoing public just couldn't see Kathleen Turner as an action hero.