<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal" dir="ltr">Los Angeles detective Phil Gaines pulls the case of a young woman washed up on the beach, and everything about it says overdose. Her father won't accept it. As Gaines is pushed toward answers that powerful people would rather stay buried, he retreats into old French films and a fantasy of running away to Rome with Nicole, the high-class call girl he loves and can't quite reckon with.</p>
<p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal" dir="ltr"><strong>Robert Aldrich</strong>'s bleak, bruised neo-noir arrived at the end of a decade that had stopped believing in institutions, and it refuses every consolation the genre usually offers. <strong>Burt Reynolds</strong> gives one of his most withheld performances opposite <strong>Catherine Deneuve</strong>, with <strong>Ben Johnson</strong>, <strong>Eileen Brennan</strong>, <strong>Ernest Borgnine</strong> in support.</p>CrimePT2H152026-09-21