Private detective and former football player Harry Moseby gets hired on to what seems a standard missing person case, as a former Hollywood actress whose only major roles came thanks to being married to a studio mogul wants Moseby to find and return her daughter. Harry travels to Florida to find her, but he begins to see a connection between the runaway girl, the world of Hollywood stuntmen, and a suspicious mechanic when an unsolved murder comes to light.
Nominated for 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 1 nomination.
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
Essential viewing.
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Time Out,
26 Jan 2006
fresh:
An elegant conundrum, a private-eye film that has its full share of duplicity, violence, and bizarre revelation, but whose mind keeps straying from questions of pure narrative to those of the hero's psyche.
– Vincent Canby,
New York Times,
20 May 2003
fresh:
Arthur Penn's Night Moves is about an old-fashioned private eye who says and does all the expected things while surrounded by a plot he completely fails to understand.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
23 Oct 2004
fresh:
One of Penn's best features; his direction of actors is sensitive and purposeful throughout.
– Jonathan Rosenbaum,
Chicago Reader,
23 Jul 2008
fresh:
Night Moves is a paradox: a suspenseless suspenser, very well cast with players who lend sustained interest to largely synthetic theatrical characters.