Mike's Murder

Debra Winger stars in this occasionally intense film as Betty, a Los Angeles bank teller with an on-again, off-again relationship with Mike (Keyloun), a part-time tennis instructor who supplements his income by dealing drugs. When Mike fails to make a rendezvous with Betty, she learns that he is dead, murdered after he and a cocaine-addicted friend, Pete (Larson), skimmed money while acting as middlemen in a dope deal. Betty and Pete drift through a seamy Los Angeles--she looking for clues that will explain the murder, he trying to escape the hit men who have made it known that he's next. Winger overcomes the weaknesses of the script to give a strong performance, a...