Lightweight comedy fluff with Tom Selleck in a Burt Reynolds-type role as a thriller writer whose claim to have modelled his suave fictitious sleuth upon himself is as empty as his typewriter since his wife left him four years before. Then Paulina Porizkova, a mysterious Romanian with a willowy figure and melting eyes, walks into a courtroom accused of murder and Selleck sniffs a story. Giving her an alibi, he takes her to his country house, lusts after her from afar, and writes a new novel based on the developing case, worrying all the time that's she's going to stick a knife in him. 'You fell in love with a murderess' accuse his family. 'It's tough to meet girls these days,' he grumbles apologetically. The dialogue has a few happy moments like this, but not enough to promote it far enough above an average TV segment in similar vein. Selleck tries hard with the grouchy charm, Porizkova is lovely (though raw as an actress) and William Daniels deservedly gets the best lines as Selleck's nagging agent.

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