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Night Game

1989, Movie, R, 95 mins

Night Game: Review

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NIGHT GAME is oddly agreeable--an amiably irreverent, low-key cop comedy that gets interrupted every so often by some rather nasty grappling-hook murders, linked obtusely to hometown wins by the Houston Astros baseball team. Roy Scheider stars as an ex-ballplayer who's now a homicide detective with the Galveston police. About to marry a sassy young blonde (Karen Young), Scheider at the same time is looking into the murders. The victims just happen to be sassy young blondes who meet their grisly fates on the beach by the boardwalk where his fiancee works a concession with her mother (Carlin Glynn). Suffice it to say that as tightly-knit thrillers go, NIGHT GAME drops more than a few stitches. But that doesn't mean it's without its compensations. The cast turn in good, solid performances portraying the array of colorful, offbeat characters in Spencer Eastman and Anthony Palmer's script. The dialog features a level of gallows wit uncommon to the slasher genre, and the climax, though it can be spotted from approximately six innings away, is nevertheless stylishly staged and sufficiently gripping. leave a comment
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