Zero Effect (MOD)

Zero Effect (MOD)Steve Arlo. Daryl Zero. They've got private investigation covered from A to Z. Solving a murder is easy. Living being a functioning person away from the job that's hard. With sly humor and a sleuth's eye for detail, writer director Jake Kasdan makes his feature film debut. Bill Pullman is Zero: a genius on the job, a basket case in life. Ben Stiller is Arlo, Zero's frustrated front man. Their new case: finding a shady tycoon's (Ryan O'Neal) missing

After 20 years

is appealingly captured

He meets the wife who was lost at sea seven years ago and presumed dead

the handsome young farm boy who promises to wed her the day he's released from the Army

the film won the support of William Randolph Hearst

Dirk Bogarde is marvelously menacing as the father

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And loving parents choose their children's fate when the end nears (from The Last Night of the World)

she is as shocked as anyone when she agrees to go on a date with Ernesto (Ruben Blades

but when he realizes that paying the kidnappers will not guarantee his son's safety

Sick of city life

a silent-era leading man who starred opposite Greta Garbo in The Mysterious Lady