Her Alibi

1989

Action / Comedy / Crime / Mystery / Romance

6
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 45% · 24 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 45% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 5.8/10 10 8447 8.4K

beautiful woman writer

Plot summary

A writer of BAD detective novels is in full writers' block. He pretends to be the alibi of a beautiful woman who was arrested for murder at first thinking her innocent, but as she shows more and more interesting abilities (such as knife throwing) he begins to doubt his first assessment.

Director

Bruce Beresford Photo
Bruce Beresford

Top cast

Tom Selleck Photo
Tom Selleck as Phil Blackwood
Victor Argo Photo
Victor Argo as Avram
Lucia Vincent Photo
Lucia Vincent as Cocktail Lady
Ted Sutton Photo
Ted Sutton as Cop
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868.5 MB
1280*724
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 34 min
Seeds 3
1.57 GB
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English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 34 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by cosmorados 7 / 10

How do you say in Romanian, get lost dick-face! Tremendous Fun

Philip Blackwood is a depressed writer who's lost his spark and his passion for writing. His successful detective character is the subject of endless predictable stories and his agent is on his back trying to get him to turn it around. As he goes to court with the usual oldies who attend in order to have something to Gossip about up steps the beautiful Nina, an eastern European arrested for murdering a fellow countryman with a pair of scissors. Tom Selleck decides to act as her alibi (Hey it's the title of the film as well!) and invites her to live with him as he believes she is innocent. As the police detective that drops by to chat with Philip Blackwood informs him, if the alibi is made up then he is not only a perjurer, but more importantly, he is liable to be the next victim in order for the alibi to stand forever. What follows is a series of ridiculous escapades in which Philip's life is under threat at every stage of the day, never knowing if the lovely Nina is a cold blooded killer or just deadly unlucky.I had the fortune to get this film out of the video library on a whim and wound up falling in love with the film as much as Blackwood does with Nina, the parallels between his super-cool fictional world and the clumsy long suffering Blackwood are fantastic, and all the supporting cast do a great job.Don't get me wrong, this is not an Annie Hall or a when harry met sally, it's silly ridiculous and as Farantino says "I gotta say, Phil, You're works a little predictable!" but it's still a good watch and a very fun film.
Reviewed by dave13-1 6 / 10

Under-appreciated suspense comedy

Always likable Tom Selleck is well cast as a mediocre mystery writer (VERY mediocre, based on the samples of his writing we get in the voice-over narrations, which are one of the funniest parts of the movie). He's looking for a plot for his next book and finding it in the person of a beautiful Romanian college student (Paulina Porizkova) who seems to be hiding some big secret. The movie plays like the plot of a bad detective book, with perceptions of the female character shifting from dangerous to trustworthy to suspicious and back. The chemistry between the characters works very well romantically as both characters begin to fall in love despite being wary and suspicious of the various goings-on, and the Romanian KGB agents on Paulina's trail make for useful comic villains.
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