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Tightrope

Cast

Clint Eastwood, Geneviève Bujold, Dan Hedaya, Alison Eastwood View All


Crew

Richard Tuggle (Screenplay), Richard Tuggle (Director) View All

Release: Aug. 17th, 1984
Runtime: 1 hour, 55 minutes
Wes Block is a detective who's put on the case of a serial killer. His victims are young and pretty women, which he rapes and murders. The murders are getting personal when the killer chooses victims who are acquaintances of Block. Even his daughters are threatened.
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1 What did you think of Tightrope (1984)?
I was intrigued by the movie and found it interesting and it definitely is not the usual type of Clint Eastwood movie or serial killer detective thriller. However, I kind of wonder if Eastwood's ch...

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JayDee
The character is both more sensitive and feeling in his dealings with his daughters and Genevieve Bujold's Beryl Thibodeaux; but at the same time Eastwood plumbs much darker depths with regards to Block's sexual predilections.
PHOENIX74
The killer has taken note of who's on his scent though, and starts to taunt Block with notes and cryptic clues - killing a gay man he set Block up with, before Block can get to him and complete the play.
Torgo
Casting Eastwood as Block is also inspired because he seems like a guy who could resist any temptation - he's the Good in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly after all - so when he can't, it hits harder than usual.
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