V.I. Warshawski

Starring:Kathleen Turner, Jay O. Sanders, Charles Durning, Angela Goethals, Nancy Paul, Frederick Coffin, Charles McCaughan, Stephen Meadows, Wayne Knight, Lynnie Godfrey, Anne Pitoniak, Stephen Root, Robert Clotworthy, Tom Allard, Michael G. Hagerty, Lee Arenberg, Mike Bacarella, John Beasley, Everett Smith, Herb Muller
Director: Jeff Kanew
Studio: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Product Type: DVD

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You couldn't do better than Kathleen Turner to bring Sara Peretsky's tough but tender Chicago PI (who goes by her initials "because it makes it harder for people to patronize [her]") to the big screen. Too bad her vehicle is such routine murder mystery. The story of an insolent teenager (Angela Goethals) who hires Warshawski to investigate her father's suspicious death never rises above TV detective show melodrama, and Jeff Kanew's generic direction is less hardboiled than over-easy. The film's pleasures are all in the performances: smart, stylish, and sassy, Turner can toss off a tart retort with the best of them and her chemistry with Goethals's foul-mouthed wharf rat is as much mentor as maternal protector. Given a better script, Turner could have hung her shingle on this character for years to come. --Sean Axmaker

Description

When brute force isn't enough to handle the human sludge of the Chicago underworld, private investigator V.I. Warshawski pulls out two of her most lethal weapons -- powerful charm and the skill of a woman who knows all the right moves. A tough-talking, fiercely independent, sexy P.I. with a weakness for pretty shoes, Warshawski is armed with brains and seductive sex appeal. When pushed to the edge, Warshawski can play hardball with the Windy City's most wanted, including a cold-blooded killer who has murdered Boom-Boom Grafalk, an ex-hockey player who has caught her eye. A just cause is reason enough for Warshawski to take on a new case, and when Boom-Boom's 13-year-old daughter, Kat, retains the detective to ferret out her father's killer, V.I. uncovers a startling conspiracy for murder and money.

Customer Reviews:

One of my favorite quotes.......2007-03-17

This movie has one of my favorite quotes, "Never underestimate a man's ability to underestimate a woman."

This movie isn't all male bashing, but in a male dominated P.I. world there is going to be some. There is also intrigue, double crossing, and a few flying bullets as well as a couple of explosions.

A different private eye movie!.......2007-02-12

Kathleen Turner is wonderful as the private eye in this very different murder/mystery movie!

V.I. WARSHAWSKI.......2006-07-10

I REALLY LIKED IT. IT HAS HUMOR, DRAMA AND SUSPENSE. ONE OF KATHLEEN TURNER'S GREAT MOVIES !

cheap, quasi feminist movie.......2006-01-14

Kathleen Turner has gorgeous legs--and that is what this movie is about. This movie purports to be a feminist movie and constantly manifests that men are vastly inferior to women. Yet the movie includes gratuitous closeup after closeup of Turner's legs. They wouldn't have made this film if Turner had to wear pants. This movie suggests that men are led by their libido and consider women to be sex objects, yet the film itself treats Turner as nothing more than a sex object.

I Can watch this one over and over and over and............2004-10-12

What eles can I say...
This movie made me a Kathleen Turner fan.
In fact I watched my VHS tape so many times I wore the bloody thing out...

V.I. Warshawski, Detective in High Heels [Region 2]

Average customer rating:

One of my favorite quotes
A different private eye movie!
V.I. WARSHAWSKI
cheap, quasi feminist movie
I Can watch this one over and over and over and.....

V.I. Warshawski, Detective in High Heels [Region 2]
Starring: Kathleen Turner , Jay O. Sanders , Charles Durning , Angela Goethals , and Nancy Paul
Director: Jeff Kanew
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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