
Watch: V.I. Warshawski 1991 123movies, Full Movie Online – Victoria “V.I” Warshawski is a Chicago based private detective who agrees to babysit for her new boyfriend; then he is murdered. Being the detective type, she makes the murder her next case. In doing so she befriends the victim’s daughter, Kat, and together they set out to crack the case..
Plot: Victoria “V.I” Warshawski is a Chicago based private detective who agrees to babysit for her new boyfriend; then he is murdered. Being the detective type, she makes the murder her next case. In doing so she befriends the victim’s daughter, Kat, and together they set out to crack the case.
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A Good Action Movie with Plenty of Humor
“V.I. Warshawski” (Kathleen Turner) is a private detective who is hired by a former hockey player named “Bernard ‘Boom Boom’ Grafalk” (Stephen Meadows) to investigate some deals involving his two brothers. When her client is murdered she not only inherits the murder case but temporarily gets Bernard’s 13 year-old daughter “Kat” (Angela Goethals) as well. Throw in a shady mob figure by the name of “Smeissen” (Wayne Knight), a fatherly cop “Lt. Mallory” (Charles Durning) and a two-timing newspaper journalist named “Murray” (Jay O. Sanders) and what develops is a good action movie with plenty of humor along the way. Now, while this movie certainly has some faults what I liked best about it was the performance of Kathleen Turner who I thought did quite well in spite of some weak dialogue and a couple of rather obvious and predictable scenes. She also had some great legs. In any case, I enjoyed the movie and I rate it as slightly above average.
Definitely disappointing, but not awful
It is remarkable to me how much affection and revulsion this watchable, incomplete misfire of a film can inspire, here among the Comments and elsewhere; I haven’t seen more than a few minutes of it for several years, but did see it in a theater in its original run. Kathleen Turner as VIW is too much a flirt to conform to Sara Paretsky’s portrait of her detective, but otherwise gives a decent performance that, better than the script, gets across Warshawski’s toughness, wit and unwillingness to suffer fools any more than she has to. The film, as someone else noted, would’ve done well to be a more faithful adaptation of one of the early novels, rather than pulling bits from several and then letting the plot go completely slack by the last third. But there are nice touches, here and there; Wayne Knight was born to play the petty thug and childhood schoolmate of Warshawski. But the hastiness and corner-cutting of the production is unfortunately evident. One wonders if a second film, with a better script and crew, might’ve been quite good.
Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 29 min (89 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Action, Comedy, Crime
Director Jeff Kanew
Writer Sara Paretsky, Edward Taylor, David Aaron Cohen
Actors Kathleen Turner, Jay O. Sanders, Charles Durning
Country United States
Awards 1 nomination
Production Company N/A
Website N/A
Sound Mix Dolby (Westrex Recording System)
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Panavision Cameras and Lenses
Laboratory Technicolor, Hollywood (CA), USA (prints)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm (Eastman 5384)