Word: chases
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...complex lawsuit, the movie gets buried in paperwork; there's too much walking and talking. (See Tom think. See Tom brood. See Tom make photocopies. See Tom amble across his living room -- in slow motion.) And at the end, too much running and gunning. Maybe every thriller demands a chase, but a clever thriller deserves a better one. On that endless, aimless run, Mitch loses his way, and The Firm goes flabby...
While the authorities seemingly ignored Gasior, she was not forgotten. She says a few days after her Justice Department interview, cars mysteriously started following her. One night a car that had been shadowing her forced her off the road. The same vehicle pursued her in a wheel-screeching, hilltop chase until she got away by shutting off her lights. Then there were the constant phone calls to her home from someone who only breathed over the line, and a false newspaper report that an arrest warrant had been issued in her name. She began to fear for her life...
...culture teaches us to chase after the golden ring, and I was doing that," Brooks says. "But I felt needed to make a meaningful contribution to what I feel is important...
...date. Pushing 50, Mack agrees to look for the missing partner because he fears his own high-paying job at Gage & Griswell may be in jeopardy; if he succeeds, he should be able to coast on his partners' gratitude for a few more years. The idea of the chase appeals to the ex-cop in him. And the job may distract him from the dreariness of his personal life: his recent divorce, his unruly adolescent son, the drinking problem he hopes he has solved by abstinence...
...Complaint and The Counterlife. This Philip Roth looks exactly like the original--he wears the same outfit down to the worn-at-the-elbow tweed sports jacket and worn-at-the-heels brown loafers. In a fragile mental state, Roth the character decides to go to Israel to chase the man down, still wary that the imposter is a latent drug-induced hallucination...