Main Cast: Rutger Hauer, Natasha Richardson, Tom Wright, Dana Eskelson
Release Year: 1992
Country: US
Run Time: 100 minutes
MPAA Rating: R
Plot
In this thriller a man falsely imprisoned for murdering his wife, finishes his 15 year sentence and then falls in love with his lovely parole officer who believes in him. Things go well until someone threatens the officer and begins trying to get him back in prison. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Ted D'Arms - Bill Tudor; Paul Giamatti - Larry Canipe; Guy Boyd - Todd Canipe; Charles Boswell - Carlton Daniels; Clancy Brown - Steve Lundy; Ronny Cox; Krisha Fairchild - Dr. Zastoupil; Brian Finney - Delivery Man; Ernie Lively - Detective Allan Tobias
Credit
Quentin Tarantino - Associate Producer, Jan Eliasberg - Director, Steve Bartek - Composer (Music Score), Sharon Seymour - Production Designer, Robert Yeoman - Cinematographer, Lisa Hansen - Producer, Paul Hertzberg - Producer, Frank Norwood - Screenwriter
Parolee Ben Jordan has spent the past fifteen years behind bars for his pregnant wife's murder. He is monitored by his parole officer Lee Samuels and social worker Laura Mathews after his released. Mathews begins looking into his case and becomes convinced that he was convicted under circumstantial evidence and starts becoming convinced of his innocence in the crime. Before long she starts falling for him, but this is far from wise, since even if he is innocent, Mrs Jordan's real murderer may soon come a calling.
After significantly re-writing the script, Quentin Tarantino Catalaine Knell shared her associate producer credit with him on the film (his first official screen credit). The film features a number of Tarantino's trademark pop cultural references. For example, in reference to a Peeping Tom-like recording of a murder, a cop says "It makes Nightmare on Elm Street look like Charlotte's Web."
