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Sketch Artist (1992)
(TV)
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Director:
Phedon
Papamichael |
COUNTRY
USA |
GENRE
Crime/Thriller |
NORWEGIAN TITLE
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RUNNING
TIME
88
minutes |
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Producer:
Brad Krevoy
Steven Stabler |
Screenwriter:
Michael Angeli |
Review
An appropriately scruffy-looking Jeff
Fahey turns in a believable and energetic performance as a police sketch
artist who draws what he believes may be his wife based on a description
by a murder witness, and must then balance his work duties while trying
to figure out what happened. Sketch Artist is a typical 1990s crime
thriller in pacing and plot development, for good or worse, but the
direction is slick and the film plays out like a sexy foreplay; the
premise is intriguing, the music enticing, and there is steam in the
air. That is until the finale, which features cardboard bad guys who
would seem more at place being cuffed by Mickey Mouse than exposed by a
wolf-like Fahey. A young Drew Barrymore impresses in the few scenes she
has as the witness.
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