The read
Audiences rate it 63 points higher than critics do. Most of the 937 1990s thriller movies in this catalog score higher.
Synopsis
In the wake of a career-ending scandal, disgraced lawyer Lawson Russell moves to Key West, where he befriends aging novelist Christopher Marlowe. After letting Russell borrow his latest manuscript, Marlowe dies of a heart attack. When Russell publishes the dead man's manuscript under his own name, he makes the best-seller list—and unwittingly becomes the prime suspect in the investigation of a grisly multiple homicide.
Ratings
IMDb6.3/10
Rotten Tomatoes0%
Audiences rate it 63 points higher than critics do.
184 audience votes
Key crew
- Rowdy HerringtonDirector
- Rowdy HerringtonWriter
- Steve PorcaroOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Cuba Gooding Jr.Lawson Russell
- Tom BerengerClifford Dubose
- Marianne Jean-BaptisteElizabeth Pope
- Eric StoltzThurman Parks III
- Mark PellegrinoProf. Arthur Corvus
- Ashley LaurenceJanine DeVrie
- Carmen ArgenzianoJudge Wiley Banning
- Marisa PetroroLaura
- Doug WertBilly Ray Richardson
- Gaelle ComparatThurman's Girl
- Nate AdamsJames
- Renée EstevezReporter
