Told to take it easy by his cardiologist, Dr. Bonnie Fox (ANJELICA HUSTON), Terry plans on hanging out on his boat-cum-house, but an unexpected visit from Graciella Rivers (WANDA De JESUS) changes all of that. It seems that she's the sister of a convenience store murder victim and wants him to help find the killer. He's initially reluctant, but when he learns that his donated heart came from that victim, he feels that he must at least look into the case.
LAPD detectives Ronaldo Arrango (PAUL RODRIGUEZ) and John Waller (DYLAN WALSH) are reluctant to help due to their antagonistic history with him, but do show him the surveillance camera footage that caught the murder on tape. Collecting some clues from that, Terry then sets out to see his good friend Jaye Winston (TINA LIFFORD) who works for the Sheriff's department and learns that another similar murder took place two weeks prior to his case.
With the aid of marina neighbor Buddy Noone (JEFF DANIELS) who drives him around, Terry starts digging for more clues, interviewing witnesses such as James Lockridge (RICH HOFFMAN) and interrogating potential suspects such as Russian worker Bolotov (IGOR JIJIKINE). As he does so, he gets to know Graciella and her young nephew, Raymond (MASON LUCERO), and feels an increased urgency to solve the case.
As he tries to do just that, he slowly begins to piece together the clues that soon lead him into an unexpected discovery about the killer's identity and true motive.
Violence includes footage of various people being shot and killed, or views of already murdered people (with bloody results). Some of those moments (including surveillance tape footage of execution-style murders) and some late in the game cat and mouse scenes might be unsettling and/or suspenseful to viewers (especially those with low tolerance levels for such material). Other non-lethal violence (some struggling, shooting at others) also occurs.
Meanwhile, various characters have varying degrees of bad attitudes, some drinking occurs and alcohol is seen, while some tense family material is also present (related to murders of family victims). Should you still be concerned about the film's appropriateness for yourself or anyone else in your home, you may want to look more closely at our detailed listings for more specific information regarding the film's content.
For those concerned with flashes of light on the screen, some brief and partial moments of that occur as some light reflects/shimmers on some water and causes that flashing effect.
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(2002) (Clint Eastwood, Jeff Daniels) (R)
Alcohol/
DrugsBlood/Gore
Disrespectful/
Bad AttitudeFrightening/
Tense ScenesGuns/
Weapons
Mild
Heavy
Extreme
Heavy
Extreme
Imitative
BehaviorJump
ScenesMusic
(Scary/Tense)Music
(Inappropriate)Profanity
Mild
Minor
Extreme
None
Heavy
Sex/
NuditySmoking
Tense Family
ScenesTopics To
Talk AboutViolence
Moderate
None
Mild
Moderate
Extreme
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Reviewed August 6, 2002 / Posted August 9, 2002
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