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Because Brianne (Lynda Carter) handles the advances of a drunk at the
bar she works at really well, psychiatrist Justin Price (Granville Van
Dusen) decides to hire her for his help hotline, an offer she gladly
accepts (without giving up her job at the bar though). Of course, the two
also fall in love soon enough. Anyways, a few days into her job, Brianne
receives a call of a mystery caller who tells her he has killed a woman
whose body has just been found, and gives her a clue to a murder 12 years
ago. For whatever reason, Brianne investigates and soon finds some
evidence her caller might not be a nut. Over the phone, he gives her more
and more clues, and instead of going straight to the police or letting it
rest - as Justin suggests -, she investigates more and invariably finds
evidence everyone else was too blind to see. Eventually, even she has to
realize she has come too close to the truth to not hand everything she's
got over to the police - but while they believe her even, they simply
can't afford to protect her. It doesn't take long until Brianne's
suspicions boil down to one man, moviestar Tom Hunter (Steve Forrest), who
is madly but unluckily in love with her and in whose ex-stuntman's (Monte
Markham) bar she works. But of course, while she does everything to keep
Tom Hunter out of her hair, it's actually the ex-stuntman who's the maniac
- his motive? He has been crippled quite some time ago when doubling for
Tom Hunter, and he has never recovered from that, mentally, and suffered
from the fact that while doubling for him all the time, he would just
never be Tom Hunter ... In the end, after your typical game of
cat and mouse, Brianne harpoons (!) the killer to death, just before
Justin arrives, the police in tow ... Pretty much your typical
run-of-the-mill early 1980's made-for-TV psychothriller: It's not
essentially bad film, it's just lacking in both narrative set-up
and build-up, features exclusively clichéed characters that lack depth
(which makes the killer too easy too spot too early in the movie), lacks
any and all interesting setpieces of any kind, and is just too harmless to
really stick in your mind. And as for the cast: While Lynda Carter gives a
decent performance once you can forget she was Wonder
Woman only a few years back, her (almost exclusively male)
co-stars seem to do their best not to stick in your mind. ... and now
I've probably made the film sound worse than it is, because honestly, it's
no trainwreck of a movie, it's just something I will have forgotten in a
couple of hours - which is why I really had to rush this review ...
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