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Writing A Book Is Easy. Writing A Best Seller Is Murder.
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  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 50 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: March 24, 2015
  • Originally Released: 1987
  • Label: Olive

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User Ratings: 2,322
Rating: 65/100 -- The two leads make Best Seller easy to sit through, but the wandering script by Larry Cohen and the dreary pacing offered by director John Flynn sink what could have been a can't-miss b-movie hoot.
Apollo Guide
Feb 21, 2003
...[BEST SELLER] combines the sinister appeal of James Woods at his cold-blooded best with the gruffly lovable persona of Brian Dennehy...
Variety
Sep 23, 1987
Concentrate(s) on character interactions, shootouts, and chases, with things like plot and motivation taking a back seat. The slick, 1980s design does the rest. Full Review
Combustible Celluloid
Mar 27, 2015
Rating: 4/5 -- This Best Seller is a fabulous read...slick, taut, and involving. Woods and Dennehy make for an unconventional crime-chasing pair.
TheWorldJournal.com
May 31, 2003
Rating: 5/5 -- A knockout. An intense, imaginative and exciting multilayered thriller. Woods and Dennehy are both outstanding. One of the unsung great movies of the 1980s.
Fantastica Daily
Oct 8, 2005
...Woods and Dennehy are excellent actors and a fascinating matchup; Dennehy's burly, smiling, casualness and rock-solid naturalism is a perfect complement to Woods' restless, mercurial, stripped-nerve intensity...
Los Angeles Times
Sep 25, 1987
Rating: B -- Ingenious big city cop film. Full Review
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Apr 7, 2016

Product Description:

Dennis Meechum (Brian Dennehy) is a cop who has supplemented his meager policeman's salary by writing a succession of lurid crime novels, including one based on an episode from his own life. But his imagination fails him after his wife's tragic, premature death from cancer. Lonely, burned-out, and unable to write, Meechum is shaken from his doldrums by his "chance" meeting with a former hit man named Cleve (James Woods). Cleve drags the writer around the country presenting him with details and evidence of an outlandish national murder spree orchestrated by a wealthy man considered to be a pillar of Los Angeles society. It is Meechum's job to put it all down in a book and make his informer the hero of the expose, but he soon realizes that he and the mysterious Cleve share a past -- and, worse yet, that the hit man has by no means given up his murderous ways. A crackling suspense thriller with a plot like a Pachinko machine.

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  • Sales Rank: 55,113
  • UPC: 887090092500
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