It's the off-season at the lonely Beauregard Hotel in Bournemoth, and only the long-term tenants are still in residence. Life is stirred up, however, when the beautiful Ann Shankland arrives to see her alcoholic ex-husband, John Malcolm, who is secretly engaged to Pat Cooper, the woman who runs the hotel. Meanwhile, snobbish Mrs Railton-Bell discovers that the kindly if rather doddering Major Pollock, played by David Niven, who won an Oscar for his performance, a retired officer who likes to find out more...

Will's life is stuck in a rut, and everyone seems to be leaving him behind. One night he's bitten by a wolf and his life begins to transform. At first the changes are positive: he regains his 'killer' instinct (metaphorically speaking) at work, but then more primal urges begin to surface. Good fun. Plus a great dark turn from Spader as Will's nemesis lifts this movie above being simply watchable.