Twilight

Robert Benton's melancholy Hollywood detective story is a slight affair, but great, lived-in performances by its top-notch cast are a pleasure to watch. Washed-up ex-cop, ex-alcoholic and ex-private eye Harry Ross (Paul Newman) isn't doing much with himself, living over the garage at the palatial home of golden couple Catherine and Jack Ames (Susan Sarandon and Gene Hackman) and doing little chores to earn his keep. Former actors now starring in the grand drama of their own lives -- in the words of their prematurely weary daughter Mel (Reese Witherspoon) -- the Ameses owe Harry one: Two years earlier he got shot in the groin retrieving the then-underage Mel from a Me...