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Her Alibi is a 1989 American romantic comedy film directed by Bruce Beresford, written by Charlie Peters and starring Tom Selleck, Paulina Porizkova, William Daniels, and James Farentino .
Feb 3, 1989 · Her Alibi: Directed by Bruce Beresford. With Tom Selleck, Paulina Porizkova, William Daniels, James Farentino. Phil has writer's block after 30 detective novels.
Synopsis. A writer of BAD detective novels is in full writers' block. He pretends to be the alibi of a beautiful woman who was arrested for murder at first thinking her innocent, but as she shows more and more interesting abilities (such as knife throwing) he begins to doubt his first assessment.
Convinced she's not guilty, Phil furnishes Nina with an alibi and a place to stay. But, as the two begin to fall in love, Phil finds he has grave doubts about her innocence.
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- Romance, Comedy
- PG
"Her Alibi" is a movie in the second category - endless, pointless and ridiculous, right up to the final shot of the knife going through the cockroach. This movie is desperately bankrupt of imagination and wit, and Tom Selleck looks adrift in it. He plays a detective novelist, named Blackwood, who has run out of inspiration.
A writer of BAD detective novels is in full writers' block. He pretends to be the alibi of a beautiful woman who was arrested for murder at first thinking her innocent, but as she shows more and more interesting abilities (such as knife throwing) he begins to doubt his first assessment.
A mild-mannered mystery novelist lives vicariously through the adventures of his fictional hero, a dashing detective. When a foreign beauty, accused of murder, crosses his path, he supplies her with an alibi -- only to begin a series of near-fatal accidents. Director: Bruce Beresford.
