Directed by
Richard Tuggle
Plot summary:
In Richard Tuggle's serial-killer thriller Tightrope, Clint Eastwood delivers one of his best performances as Wes Block, a New Orleans detective investigating a series of sadistic sex murders in the French Quarter. All of the victims were attractive, promiscuous, and, more importantly, recent sexual conquests of Block's. Block, a recently divorced man with two young daughters at home, is sexually frustrated and has taken a liking to rough and kinky sex; in essence, the killer is acting as Block's violent Id, and with each new corpse the killer is getting closer and closer to him. Along the way, Block strikes up an interesting relationship with a rape counselor (played by Geneviève Bujold), whose up-frontness breaks through Block's guarded manner and puts a mirror up to him, and he doesn't like what he sees. Soon, Block begins questioning his own moral sanity, with the unnerving knowledge that he and the killer are alike in more ways he'd care to admit. [source: Jack Sommersby - efilmcritic.com]
Cast:
Clint Eastwood | .... | Capt. Wes Block | |
Geneviève Bujold | .... | Beryl Thibodeaux | |
Dan Hedaya | .... | Det. Molinari | |
Alison Eastwood | .... | Amanda Block | |
Jenny Beck | .... | Penny Block (as Jennifer Beck) | |
Marco St. John | .... | Leander Rolfe | |
Rebecca Perle | .... | Becky Jacklin | |
Regina Richardson | .... | Sarita | |
Randi Brooks | .... | Jamie Cory | |
Jamie Rose | .... | Melanie Silber | |
Margaret Howell | .... | Judy Harper | |
Rebecca Clemons | .... | Girl with Whip | |
Janet MacLachlan | .... | Dr. Yarlofsky | |
Graham Paul | .... | Luther | |
Bill Holliday | .... | Police Chief | |
John Wilmot | .... | Medical Examiner | |
Margie O'Dair | .... | Mrs. Holstein | |
Joy N. Houck Jr. | .... | Swap Meet Owner | |
Stuart Baker-Bergen | .... | Blond Surfer | |
Donald Barber | .... | Shorty | |
Robert Harvey | .... | Lonesome Alice | |
Ron Gural | .... | Coroner Dudley | |
Layton Martens | .... | Sgt. Surtees | |
Richard Charles Boyle | .... | Dr. Fitzpatrick | |
Becki Davis | .... | Nurse | |
Jonathan Sachar | .... | Gay Boy | |
Valerie Thibodeaux | .... | Black Hooker | |
Lionel Ferbos | .... | Plainclothes Gus | |
Eliott Keener | .... | Sandoval | |
Cary Wilmot Alden | .... | Secretary | |
David Valdes | .... | Manes | |
James Borders | .... | Carfagno | |
Fritz Manes | .... | Valdes | |
Jonathan Shaw | .... | Quono | |
Don Lutenbacher | .... | Dixie President | |
G. Wood | .... | Conventioneer (as George Wood) | |
Kimberly Georgoulis | .... | Sam | |
Glenda Byers | .... | Lucy Davis (as Glenda Byars) | |
John Schluter | .... | Piazza Cop (as John Schluter Jr.) | |
Nick Krieger | .... | Rannigan | |
Lloyd Nelson | .... | Patrolman Restic | |
David Dahlgren | .... | Patrolman Julio | |
Rod Masterson | .... | Patrolman Gallo | |
Glenn Wright | .... | Patrolman Redfish | |
Angela Hill | .... | Woman Reporter | |
Ted Saari | .... | T.V. News Technician |