Complicated goofy thriller about
a female private eye in a scummy Pittsburgh neighborhood who's
trying to solve all these murder and rape cases, only the cops
aren't helping and she even thinks maybe the cops are doing the
murders, and she has to prove herself because her father was a
corrupt cop, and the vicious police captain hates her, and her
sort-of boyfriend is a cop, too, but every time she comes home
there's a cop sneaking into somebody's apartment or running up
the fire escape. She gets hired by a community crime network to
solve the crimes, only one of the lawyers starts trying to get
her thrown out, then she goes down into the county archive and
decides maybe her dad wasn't a bad cop after all, and then she
hangs around with the retired D.A. who thinks of her like a
daughter, and then she goes to the nursing home to see her crazy
mama Tammy Grimes, and sometimes she takes time out to kung-fu
some burglars and throw killer cops off rooftops with the help of
her cool Negro partner. One of those way-too-much-information
movies. Eight dead bodies. Three breasts. Coffee in the face.
Aardvarking. Bomb. Roof plunge. Kung Fu. Taser Fu. With Linda
Kozlowski as the I-never-sleep vigilante who has nightmare
flashbacks about her daddy, Paul Sorvino as the screaming red-
faced captain, Hector Elizondo as the retired D.A. Written and
directed by Chris McIntyre. 
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