Tightrope
A cop on the edge.
Overview
Wes Block is a detective who's put on the case of a serial killer whose victims are young and pretty women. The murders are getting personal when the killer chooses victims who are acquaintances of Block. Even his daughters are threatened.
- Revenue
- $48,143,579
- Production
- Malpaso Productions, Warner Bros. Pictures
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Cast
Clint Eastwood
Wes Block
Geneviève Bujold
Beryl Thibodeaux
Dan Hedaya
Det. Molinari
Alison Eastwood
Amanda Block
Jenny Beck
Penny Block
Marco St. John
Leander Rolfe
Rebecca Perle
Becky Jacklin
Randi Brooks
Jamie Cory
Jamie Rose
Melanie Silber
Janet MacLachlan
Dr. Yarlofsky
John Wilmot
Medical Examiner
Robert Harvey
Lonesome Alice
Becki Davis
Nurse
Eliott Keener
Sandoval
David Valdes
Manes
Fritz Manes
Valdes
G. Wood
Conventioneer
David Dahlgren
Patrolman Julio
Crew
- Director
- Richard Tuggle
- Writers
- Richard Tuggle
- Producers
- Clint Eastwood,Fritz Manes
- Cinematography
- Bruce Surtees
- Composer
- Lennie Niehaus
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John Chard
March 8, 2014
The Doppleganger disease. Tightrope is directed by Richard Tuggle and Clint Eastwood, Tuggle writes the screenplay. It stars Eastwood, Genevieve Bujold, Dan Hedaya, Alison Eastwood and Rod Masterson. Music is by Lennie Niehaus and cinematography by Bruce Surtees. New Orleans and Detective Wes Block is plunged into a hunt for a rapist serial killer that brings out his own deviant peccadilloes. One of Eastwood’s best movies also happens to be one of his most under appreciated, the actor …
Wuchak
March 8, 2019
***Dramatic, melancholic Eastwood detective flick set in New Orleans*** A divorced detective in New Orleans (Clint Eastwood) juggles raising two daughters, pursing a serial rapist/killer, cultivating a romantic relationship (Geneviève Bujold) and dealing with his own dark side, which he realizes is too close for comfort to the killer. “Tightrope” (1984) is another Eastwood detective flick, but it’s not as entertaining and compelling as his Dirty Harry films or “The Gauntlet” (1977). It’s …
r96sk
January 31, 2022
How is this not super entertaining? <em>'Tightrope'</em> should have all the ingredients to make the viewer be on the edge of their seat, and yet I really didn't care much for it. Clint Eastwood, who apparently took over unofficially as director from Richard Tuggle during filming, gives a solid performance and the bond with his character's children is cute. However, the story just didn't do anything for me. It's not particularly unnerving, despite a dark on paper story, and it's rather pre…