Movie: Against All Odds (1984)
- Director: Taylor Hackford
- Release Date: 8 June 1984 (Hong Kong)
- Writers: Daniel Mainwaring (1947 screenplays) Eric Hughes (writer)
- Run Time: 128 min
- Country: USA
- Genre: Action , Adventure , Crime , Drama , Romance , Thriller
Tagline: She was a beautiful fugitive. Fleeing from corruption. From power. He was a professional athlete past his prime. Hired to find her, he grew to love her. Love turned to obsession. Obsession turned to murder. And now the price of freedom might be nothing less than their lives.
Trivia: Jane Greer, who played the “mother” in this movie, played the “daughter,” Kathie Moffat, in the original version, Out of the Past (1947). The daughter in this version was renamed Jessie Wyler and played by Rachel Ward. Paul Valentine, who played Councilman Wienberg, played Joe Stephanos in the original.
Goofs: Revealing mistakes: When Brogan finds Kirsch lying dead in the shower the camera zooms in on a close-up of Kirsch’s face. You can see that Kirsch’s pupils are constricted by the bright light. A real corpse’s eyes would be fully dilated.
“Terry Brogan, an aging football player in L.A., is cut early in the season; he needs money, so he takes a job from a shady friend of his, Jake Wise, to track down Wise’s girlfriend, Jessie, who’s somewhere in Mexico. She’s also the daughter of a very wealthy land developer, who owns Terry’s team. He heads for Cozumel, finds Jessie, and promptly falls in love with her. He thinks it’s mutual, then without warning, she heads back to L.A. and Jake. What’s going on with her, and what’s the connection between Jake’s hold on Jessie and the various politicians, lawyers, and environmentalists who seem to be converging on some sort of land deal? Terry keeps looking for answers. Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>”
