Kurt Russell stars in this uneven and somewhat predictable thriller as Malcolm Anderson, a Miami journalist who becomes the sole contact with a serial killer. After being pleased by the article Anderson has written about the victim of his first murder, the "Numbers Killer" (Jordan) begins
communicating regularly with the newspaperman, giving him the exclusive story after each of his subsequent murders. Anderson eventually becomes something of a celebrity--appearing on the cover of
Time, being interviewed on the "Today" show--and the jealous, psychotic murderer kidnaps Anderson's
live-in girl friend (Hemingway). While carefully constructing the relationship b...
Released:
1985
Rated:
R
Length:
106 mins