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starring: Gene Hackman, Jennifer Warren, Susan Clark, Ed Binns, Harris Yulindirected by: Arthur Penn
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786300268876
Format: Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
ISBN: 630026887X
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Release Date: April 01, 1992
Running Time: 100 minutes
Sales Rank: 15978
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1975
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
This vastly underrated Arthur Penn film from the mid-1970s ranks as one of the era's nastiest and most fascinating pieces of business, a detective story that shuttles back and forth between Hollywood and the Florida Keys, with a plot nearly as complex as Chinatown. Gene Hackman stars as a tired, aging private eye who, as a favor to a friend, agrees to track down a runaway teen. But the case turns out to be something much larger: a smuggling ring of Mayan antiquities. The human impulses get darker and darker and Hackman's character gets pulled in deeper and deeper, even as his own life is falling apart. Ultimately, in one of his best and most unsung performances, Hackman winds up hurting the people he is trying to help. A great cast includes Susan Clark, Jennifer Warren, a young James Woods, and a very young Melanie Griffith. --Marshall Fine
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Slow Boat to China
I had noticed "Night Moves" inclusion in the "New York Times Best 1000 Movies". I like a good detective movie and I was looking forward to seeing it which I did last night. I was disappointed in the movie. In all fairness, my disappointment was borne in high expectations. However, I found the plot unnecessarily complicated (many will probably like this aspect). The characters were too much. Our hero, for example, is a former All-Pro football player. Except for some access issues that could ... Read More
Rating:  - An Underdog of the 1970s PI Films
I'm a big fan of private eye movies and television series. I'm glad THE ROCKFORD FILES has finally come out on DVD, but I'm still waiting for MARLOWE, starring James Garner and Bruce Lee.
However, I don't have an excuse for not having already seen Night Moves. It's been out for over thirty years, and I bought the DVD a year ago. I did finally get around to watching it, though, and it was as good as I'd hoped it would be.
The story is pure 1970s, as evidenced by the cars, ... Read More
Rating:  - y-a-w-n
I watched this because I'm a Gene Hackman fan. Despite his (youthful) skill at developing a believable shamus, I couldn't get into the three intermixed, sluggish, low-action plots - Hackman's disinigrating marriage, the persuit of the missing girl, or the smuggling. If you've seen Gene in the French Connection, the Firm, or the Unforgiven, don't expect the same from this early work.
Rating: - An OK movie
I had never heard of this movie until I ran across it on Amazon.com. I made the purchase because I like Gene Hackman in just about everything he does.
This is a reasonably entertaining movie, but not great. Some of the more interesting things about it are seeing a young James Woods and seeing near nude shots of a young Melanie Griffith.
I don't believe that I can honestly recommend that anyone purchase this movie because it is not one that would be watched many times. In fact, I believe ... Read More
Rating: - No one gets it
I just read all the 26 reviews so far to see if anyone really understood what happened. Where is Iverson at the end? He seems to be the only character who isn't dead. They say THE BIG SLEEP is confusing -- that's nothing compared to this. When Edward Binns shows up in the plane at the end, my head is spinning. But the movie is fun to watch, and Gene Hackman is wonderful. I don't agree about the transfer, though. The center of the screen is washed out by distortion in the darker scenes. I had to put my ... Read More
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