Tightrope
MysteryThrillerCrime
6.142/10
|US
|en
|115 min
Release Date: 1984-08-17
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.
Production Companies
Malpaso ProductionsWarner Bros. Pictures
User Reviews
John Chard
8/10
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...
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Wuchak
6/10
***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, ...
