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Best Seller (2002, DVD)

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Dennis Meechum (Brian Dennehy) is a cop who has supplemented his meager policeman's salary by writing a succession of lurid crime novels, including one based on an episode from his own life. But his imagination fails him after his wife's tragic, premature death from cancer. Lonely, burned-out, and unable to write, Meechum is shaken from his doldrums by his "chance" meeting with a former hit man named Cleve (James Woods). Cleve drags the writer around the country presenting him with details and evidence of an outlandish national murder spree orchestrated by a wealthy man considered to be a pillar of Los Angeles society. It is Meechum's job to put it all down in a book and make his informer the hero of the expose, but he soon realizes that he and the mysterious Cleve share a past -- and, worse yet, that the hit man has by no means given up his murderous ways. A crackling suspense thriller with a plot like a Pachinko machine.

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Cast:	Allison Balson, Brian Dennehy, James Woods, Victoria Tennant

Notes
DVD Features:

Region 1
Keep Case
Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.85
Additional Release Material:
Trailers - 1. Original Theatrical Trailer, Shot in CFI color.

The fictional, best-selling book written by Brian Dennehy's character is entitled "Retribution."

Editorial Reviews
"...[BEST SELLER] combines the sinister appeal of James Woods at his cold-blooded best with the gruffly lovable persona of Brian Dennehy..."
Variety - Camb. (09/23/1987)

"...Woods and Dennehy are excellent actors and a fascinating matchup; Dennehy's burly, smiling, casualness and rock-solid naturalism is a perfect complement to Woods' restless, mercurial, stripped-nerve intensity..."
Los Angeles Times - Michael Wilmington (09/25/1987)

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Classic flick

Review created: 07/12/08

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The casting of woods and brian dennehy is perfect which helps to make the story of an ex-hitman telling his story to cop-turned-author believable. Scenes at woods" boyhood home, and his parents also help; Woods" ex-hitman character is written and played as a real, multi-dimensional person, not as a stereotype.. The scene about the gift in the plane and his wanting to befriend dennehy, are quite touching.

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