Tightrope

Name: Tightrope
Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Crime
Released: August 17, 1984
Duration: 114 min
Rating: 61
Cast: Alison Eastwood, Clint Eastwood, Dan Hedaya, Geneviève Bujold, Jamie Rose

1984

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Tightrope

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TV-14

Warner Bros. | Release Date: August 17, 1984

Starring: Alison Eastwood, Clint Eastwood, Dan Hedaya, Geneviève Bujold, Jamie Rose, Jenny Beck, Marco St. John, Randi Brooks, Rebecca Perle, Regina Richardson

Summary: New Orleans single dad and cop Wes Block goes after a serial rapist-killer but when he gets too close to the target the hunter suddenly becomes the hunted.

Director: Richard Tuggle

Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller, Crime

Rating: TV-14

Runtime: 114 min

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Chicago Sun-Times - Roger Ebert

Apart from the other good things in Tightrope, I admire it for taking chances; Clint Eastwood can get rich making Dirty Harry movies, but he continues to change and experiment, and that makes him the most interesting of the box-office megastars. Read full review

Time Out - Staff (Not Credited)

A film about desire and its control is hardly what one might expect, but then Eastwood has always been Hollywood's most experimental star. And he's still one of the best. Read full review

The New York Times - Janet Maslin

A suspenseful, involving detective drama with one of the screen's most durable tough-guy heroes, doing what he does best and still managing to show something new. Read full review

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) - Jay Scott

There are two ways to look at Tightrope: as a Clint Eastwood Hollywood vehicle, or as a world-class movie that deserves to be judged with the best. By the first standard, Tightrope is an exceptionally realized thriller; by the second, it is an interesting failure, a movie that loses its nerve and resolves its contradictions in the slam-bang heroics of formula moviemaking. [18 Aug 1984]

TV Guide Magazine - Staff (Not Credited)

Bruce Surtees' dark, moody cinematography is typically masterful, but its translation to video leaves some scenes a bit murky. Read full review

Miami Herald - Bill Cosford

It is not in most respects more than an ordinary thriller, however; were it not an Eastwood picture, it would be instantly forgettable. [17 Aug 1984, p.D1]

The New Yorker - Pauline Kael

Tuggle keeps whomping us on the skull with good-evil symbolism, but the movie has no more depth than the usual exploitation film in which pretty girls are knocked off.

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