George Coe

A family man (Meyer) recent promoted to middle management at work immerses himself in a world of questionable personal and professional ethics by a colleague (Scott).

Two couples go to a mutual friend's wedding and end up swapping partners. Legal secretary Maria is married to car salesman Tom. Dance teacher Larry is married to the striking Tish. Larry's uncle is marrying Maria's mother. Tom and Tish meet at the wedding and waste no time taking more than a test drive in his BMW. So when Maria and Larry become acquainted later in the day they already have a common interest. But more than that, they find they like each other. A lot.

A group of masked gunmen steal evidence from a police evidence storage unit, killing several officers in the process. Officer Dennis Meechum (Brian Dennehy) is seriously wounded after stabbing one of the robbers. He survives and publishes a book titled Inside Job based on his experience. Years later, Meechum has been promoted to Detective, and is working on his next novel. He now suffers from writer's block, and is a widowed father raising his daughter, Holly (Allison Balson). On a case at the docks, a suspect runs as Meechum gives chase. A man named Cleve (James Woods) joins the chase. The suspect hides in an overhead crane and attempts to shoot Meechum, but Cleve kills the man, then disappears. Cleve arranges a meeting with Meechum, and tries to convince to write a book about his history as a paid assassin for a corporate empire, Kappa International. Cleve intimidates Kappa's founder, David Madlock (Paul Shenar) about Meechum's next book, and promises Meechum to show evidence to back up his claims. They proceed to take trips to New York and Texas where Cleve tries to convince Meechum of his history of hits. While they are in Texas, it is revealed that Cleve was the injured masked gunmen that Meechum had stabbed years earlier. Madlock, through his legal representatives, tries to bribe Meechum but fails. When an enforcer tries to steal a manuscript of Meechum's novel and attempt to kill Holly, Cleve intervenes by killing him. When Cleve attempts to keep Holly safe by sending her to Meechum's agent, Roberta Gillian (Victoria Tennant). Madlock, however, manages to kidnap Holly. Meechum decides to have a meeting with Madlock at the latter's oceanfront estate. Cleve storms into the house, and guns down all of Madlock's bodyguards. Cleve then sacrifices his own life to save Holly from Madlock. Meechum arrests Madlock, before comforting a dying Cleve. At the end of the film, it is revealed that Meechum has published the book titled Retribution: The Fall of David Madlock and Kappa International.

As New York City Police Detective Edward Delaney (Frank Sinatra) counts the days to his retirement, a psychotic serial killer commits random murders throughout the city with an unusual weapon. At the same time, Edward's wife, Barbara (Faye Dunaway), contracts a mysterious illness after her kidney operation that leaves her physician, Dr. Bernardi (George Coe), stumped. The seriousness of Barbara's illness could rob Edward of all he has to live for and shows his tender side as he frets over his younger wife. Every time the killer commits another murder, Barbara experiences a relapse and a thunderstorm inexplicably erupts. Although Captain Broughton (Anthony Zerbe), his superior, orders Edward off the case, he is obsessed after a coroner named Dr. Sanford Ferguson (James Whitmore) reveals the killer used an odd form of pickax. Edward teams up with Christopher Langley (Martin Gabel), a museum curator specializing in military weapons, who identifies the murder weapon as a mountain climber's ice ax. At a store specializing in mountain-climbing equipment, the owner supplies a list to Edward and Christopher of individuals that purchased the specific tool, narrowing their search. Monica Gilbert (Brenda Vaccaro), the wife of one murder victim, helps the men eliminate suspects until they home in on an individual who lived in all the neighborhoods, where the murders occurred. Edward goes to a large high-rise apartment building complex where he bribes Charles Lipsky (Joe Spinell), the doorman at the high rise block, to gain entry to a posh apartment owned by Daniel Blank (David Dukes), a publishing executive, who is revealed to be the killer. A confrontation occurs in which Edward finds the ice ax and faces the killer. Blank admits to Edward to being the serial killer, but refuses to be taken into custody and tells Edward to follow legal procedure. When Blank phones the police to report that Edward has broken into his apartment without a search warrant and is threatening him, Edward shoots Blank dead, eliminating the killer for good.... but also destroying his career. Edward escapes prosecution for entering a person's residence without a warrant and killing an unarmed suspect, but is prematurely dismissed from the police force and his pension is revoked. Never the less, Edward returns to the hospital to be at his wife's bedside before she quietly passes away.

A career-obsessed dad must learn how to be a parent when his wife leaves him and their 6-year-old son.

The believable, fresh-faced characters are naive American college students; armed with their French-English dictionaries they compulsively seek out hundreds of monuments, romanticize the nomadic artist's life, and look for grown-up love. A group of American exchange students comes to Paris to study the language and culture for a year. The film depicts the various interactions between the students and the instructors, including the pretty female director of the institute where they are enrolled. —Ari Herzog <ari@ici.net>