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- 1975
- R
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 40 m
- 1975
- R
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 40 m
Summary Los Angeles private investigator Harry Moseby is hired by a client to find her runaway teenage daughter. Moseby tracks the daughter down, only to stumble upon something much more intriguing and sinister.
Directed By: Arthur Penn
Written By: Alan Sharp
- 1975
- R
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 40 m
- 1975
- R
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 40 m
Night Moves
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7.4
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Summary Los Angeles private investigator Harry Moseby is hired by a client to find her runaway teenage daughter. Moseby tracks the daughter down, only to stumble upon something much more intriguing and sinister.
Directed By: Arthur Penn
Written By: Alan Sharp
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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89% Positive
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
82
89% Positive
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
11% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
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Screenwriter Alan Sharp's dialogue, as edgy as his name, combines with Penn's incisive direction to create memorable characters played by Hackman, Ward, Jennifer Warren and a young James Woods as an auto mechanic you don't want messing with your points and plugs. [22 July 2005, p.6E]
Night Moves is one of the best psychological thrillers in a long time.
Filled with shadows both literal and figurative, Night Moves elegantly combines the hard-edged pessimism, crackling banter, and all-consuming darkness of classic noir with the paranoia and bitterness that characterizes so much '70s cinema.
A stunning, stylish detective mystery in the classic Raymond Chandler/Ross Macdonald mold. [02 Sep 1990, p.72]
One of Penn's best features; his direction of actors is sensitive and purposeful throughout.
Night Moves is a paradox: a suspenseless suspenser, very well cast with players who lend sustained interest to largely synthetic theatrical characters.
An elegant conundrum, a private‐eye film that has its full share of duplicity, violence and bizarre revelation, but whose mind keeps straying from questions of pure narrative to those of the hero's psyche.
User Score
Generally Favorable
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Generally Favorable
Based on 11 User Ratings
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Awards
BAFTA Awards
• 1 Nomination
New York Film Critics Circle Awards
• 1 Nomination
