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  • Director: Juan Jose Campanella
  • AMG Rating: starstar
  • Genre: Drama
  • Main Cast: Michael Badalucco, Denis Leary, Aitana Sanchez-Gijon, Terence Stamp
  • Release Year: 1998
  • Country: US
  • Run Time: 119 minutes
  • MPAA Rating: R

Plot

In this throwback to films noir of the 1940s, Jack Morrisey (Denis Leary) is a pianist and songwriter who has been touring the club circuit with his lady love, Vicky (Aitana Sanchez-Gijon). Jack and Vicky have talent, but they haven't gotten the breaks; they're stone broke and at the end of their collective rope when Eddie (Michael Badalucco), a private eye who knows Jack, makes the couple an offer. Fred Moore (Terence Stamp), a very wealthy man who is something of a fan of Jack's music, is attracted to Vicky. Fred's money and property are, for legal reasons, primarily in the name of his wife, who wants a divorce. If Eddie can provide hard evidence that Fred is cheating on his wife, she'll stand to keep most of his money in a divorce, and Eddie will be kicked back a good chunk of change. Eddie, in turn, will be more than happy to share his wealth with Jack and Vicky, if Vicky would be willing to seduce Fred for the purposes of creating blackmail photos. Though she was a major star in Latin America, this was only the second English language film for Aitana Sanchez-Gijon, after her appearance alongside Keanu Reeves in A Walk in the Clouds. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Cast

Michael Badalucco - Eddie; Gene Canfield - Joey; Marj Dusay - Mrs. Moore; Moira Kelly - Vera; Denis Leary - Jack Morrisey; Danny Nucci - Cousin Matt; Terence Stamp - Fred Moore; Aitana Sanchez-Gijon - Vicky; Neal Huff - Howard; J.K. Simmons - Mr. Shulman

Credit

Pat McCorkle - Casting, David C. Robinson - Costume Designer, Juan Jose Campanella - Director, Darren Kloomok - Editor, Jorge Estrada Mora - Executive Producer, Jim Serpico - Executive Producer, Meredith Zamsky - Line Producer, Wendy Blackstone - Songwriter, Michael Shaw - Production Designer, Daniel Shulman - Cinematographer, Ricardo Freixa - Producer, Juan Jose Campanella - Screenwriter, Lynn Geller - Screenwriter, Larry Goldin - Screenwriter
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Love Walked In

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Directed by Juan José Campanella
Produced by Ricardo Freixa
Written by Juan José Campanella
Lynn Geller
Larry Golin
(screenplay)
José Pablo Feinmann
(novel)
Starring Denis Leary
Terence Stamp
Aitana Sánchez-Gijón
Michael Badalucco
Danny Nucci
J.K. Simmons
Moira Kelly
Jeremy Webb
Music by Wendy Blackstone
Cinematography Daniel Shulman
Editing by Darren Kloomok
Distributed by Tri-Star Pictures
Release date(s) January 18, 1997
(Sundance Film Festival)
Running time 95 minutes
Country United States
Language English

Love Walked In is a 1997 film noir drama/thriller film directed by Juan José Campanella. The film is based on the novel Ni el Tiro del Final by Argentine novelist and political columnist José Pablo Feinmann.

Plot

Jack (Denis Leary) is a world-weary pianist and writer in a lounge named the Blue Cat. His wife, Vicki (Aitana Sánchez-Gijón), is a songstress who has a way with the pseudo George Gershwin (the film takes its title from the Gershwin song "Love Walked In") tunes his husband writes. The couple is desperately poor after 10 years of touring crummy clubs.

Meanwhile, Moore (Terence Stamp), the club owner, is captivated by the beauty of Vicki. Moore is married with a wealthy woman (known only as Mrs. Moore ; Marj Dusay), whom he admits to having married for her money. Although Fred is a faithful husband, the jealous Mrs. Moore has hired Eddie (Michael Badalucco), a private detective who happens to be an old friend of Jack's, to gather evidence of Fred's infidelity. Having come up with nothing, the sleazy detective begs Jack to help by arranging for Vicki to seduce Fred in front of a hidden camera.

While this is going on Jack is also writing a story set in the 1930s, a noiresque crime thriller, which the viewer sees inter cut in imaginary scenes as Jack narrates. This secondary story is also telling the story of what happens with Jack and Vicki in a subtle way.

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