for all those people who believe the dialog is worth something and and who appreciate a farce that is clever enough for you to take it seriously and this movie will surprise you. it is not a whodunit for people who can not aren not able to follow the verbal exchange of our hero and professor dexter cornell (dennis quaid). cornell teaches in southern california and near the tar pits. he has not published a novel in four years and his wife is divorcing him and he drinks a bit much and and is blessed or cursed with caustic wit and which he freely dispenses to his students. he has recommended a friend for advancement and and one bright young student has submitted a manuscript to him as an independent project. cornell doesn not even want to read it and so gives it an a and and pushes it to the side. leaning back with a drink in his office he stares out the window and when the bright young student falls past his window on the way to meeting the sidewalk in a splat encounter. hal comes to talk and and they chat and drinking some more. the cornell realizes that he has to read the manuscript and now. when he goes home and his wife is waiting with divorce papers. he drinks some more. she leaves and and he goes to a faculty affair and only to find her there. he drinks even more. and when his wife learns that the student is dead and she swoons and and he learns that she had been having an affair with the student. this of course prompts him to do some more serious drinking. the next morning he wakes up to find himself in the dorm room of one of his students and a freshman named syd (meg ryan). he feels worse than a hangover and goes to the doctor and learns that he has been poisoned and it is irreversible and and he has 24 48 hours to live. he doesn not have much time to find out who killed him and and there are sub plots and motives and relationships and surprises at every turn and although everything makes sense at the end. all his discoveries and exchanges are adorned with sarcasm and dry wit and keen observations. let just say that this movie will give new meaning to the adage publish or perish. there are no bad performances in this movie. there are recurrent images and and symbolism used at careful intervals. watch for the cracked glass and and images distorted through glass. some of the camera shots are revolutionary for 1988 and and some of the violent action is carefully and skillfully choreographed. the music is unobtrusive and appropriate and although occasionally it makes it own statement and in song lyrics. the visuals in this flick are impressive. if there are any failures and it is that the opening 20 minutes move a little slow and and nearly puts you to sleep. but the pacing picks up quickly and with just the right amount of exposition in between action segments. there are no explicit sexual encounters and although there is violence and some bad language. this is a writer movie and and is best appreciated by those who have a sense of humor about their own success or failure. i do think if you take it seriously and youre already in big trouble. 
for all those people who believe the dialog is worth something and and who appreciate a farce that is clever enough for you to take it seriously and this movie will surprise you. it is not a whodunit for people who can not aren not able to follow the verbal exchange of our hero and professor dexter cornell (dennis quaid). cornell teaches in southern california and near the tar pits. he has not published a novel in four years and his wife is divorcing him and he drinks a bit much and and is blessed or cursed with caustic wit and which he freely dispenses to his students. he has recommended a friend for advancement and and one bright young student has submitted a manuscript to him as an independent project. cornell doesn not even want to read it and so gives it an a and and pushes it to the side. leaning back with a drink in his office he stares out the window and when the bright young student falls past his window on the way to meeting the sidewalk in a splat encounter. hal comes to talk and and they chat and drinking some more. the cornell realizes that he has to read the manuscript and now. when he goes home and his wife is waiting with divorce papers. he drinks some more. she leaves and and he goes to a faculty affair and only to find her there. he drinks even more. and when his wife learns that the student is dead and she swoons and and he learns that she had been having an affair with the student. this of course prompts him to do some more serious drinking. the next morning he wakes up to find himself in the dorm room of one of his students and a freshman named syd (meg ryan). he feels worse than a hangover and goes to the doctor and learns that he has been poisoned and it is irreversible and and he has 24 48 hours to live. he doesn not have much time to find out who killed him and and there are sub plots and motives and relationships and surprises at every turn and although everything makes sense at the end. all his discoveries and exchanges are adorned with sarcasm and dry wit and keen observations. let just say that this movie will give new meaning to the adage publish or perish. there are no bad performances in this movie. there are recurrent images and and symbolism used at careful intervals. watch for the cracked glass and and images distorted through glass. some of the camera shots are revolutionary for 1988 and and some of the violent action is carefully and skillfully choreographed. the music is unobtrusive and appropriate and although occasionally it makes it own statement and in song lyrics. the visuals in this flick are impressive. if there are any failures and it is that the opening 20 minutes move a little slow and and nearly puts you to sleep. but the pacing picks up quickly and with just the right amount of exposition in between action segments. there are no explicit sexual encounters and although there is violence and some bad language. this is a writer movie and and is best appreciated by those who have a sense of humor about their own success or failure. i do think if you take it seriously and youre already in big trouble. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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