Best Seller (Blu-ray) R
Writing A Book Is Easy. Writing A Best Seller Is Murder.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 50 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: March 24, 2015
- Originally Released: 1987
- Label: Olive
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | James Woods & Brian Dennehy | |
Performer: | Victoria Tennant, Allison Balson, Paul Shenar & George Coe | |
Directed by | John Flynn | |
Edited by | David Rosenbloom | |
Screenwriting by | Larry Cohen | |
Composition by | Jay Ferguson | |
Produced by | Carter DeHaven | |
Director of Photography: | Fred Murphy | |
Executive Production by | Derek Gibson & John Daly |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: B --
Ingenious big city cop film.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
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.
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Combustible Celluloid
[Larry] Cohen cannily mixes social satire and genre twists in his clever screenplay of an unlikely friendship between two men with more history than they realize...
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Seanax.com
...[BEST SELLER] combines the sinister appeal of James Woods at his cold-blooded best with the gruffly lovable persona of Brian Dennehy...
Variety
Rating: 1/4 --
The problem is that Best Seller is light on plot, real light. It doesn't have a compelling story at its center, only the original inspiration of the best-selling cop and the killer who wants to talk.
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Chicago Sun-Times
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
Rating: 3/5 --
One of the edgiest, most suspenseful thrillers of the 1980's....Woods is amazing
Moviehole
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.