A SLIGHT CASE OF MURDER (1999)

Cast

Plot

Made-for-TV doesn't have to mean pile-of-pants, as proved by this darkly comic, modern noir caper in which a film critic's tangled love life leads to a chain of events more outrageous than any movie plot. During a heated row with his secret lover, Terry Thorpe (William H Macy - "Fargo") is panic-stricken when she falls, hitting her head and pegging it instantly. Horrified at the implications, he scarpers from the apartment, little realising that he's been seen by a private eye employed by the dead woman's ex-husband to tail her. Realising what's happened, the investigator launches a blackmail scheme, only to have the tables turned on him. When the police become involved, the inquiry is led by a detective with screenwriting ambitions, who invites Thorpe to a dinner party at which the critic instigates an affair with the unwitting policeman's wife. Meanwhile, Thorpe's long-term girlfriend is becoming mighty suspicious of the whole damn thing. Highly entertaining.