Rotten
He's a mystery writer, she's a mystery; and it's also a mystery how TV fodder like this manages to get the high-gloss, top-talent treatment at studios.
Variety Staff, Variety
Her Alibi
Falling for a beautiful woman can be murder!
1989 · 1h 34m · PG
Comedy, Crime
Directed by
Bruce Beresford
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Bruce Beresford Director
- Tom Selleck as Phil Blackwood
- Paulina Porizkova as Nina
- William Daniels as Sam
- James Farentino as Frank Polito
- Patrick Wayne as Gary Blackwood
- Tess Harper as Sally Blackwood
- Ronald Guttman as 'Lucy' Comanescu
- Victor Argo as Avram
- Hurd Hatfield as Troppa
- Bill Smitrovich as Farrell
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
17%
Tomatometer
Rotten
A romantic melodrama of a boringness to make your average tooth extraction seem preferable.
Vincent Canby, New York Times
Rotten
Screenwriter Charlie Peters is the predictable piggy whose arrested pubescence informs Her Alibi. When it comes to imagination, he has much in common with his hero.
Rita Kempley, Washington Post
Rotten
You know a movie is in trouble when you start looking at your watch. You know it's in bad trouble when you start shaking your watch because you think it might have stopped.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Rotten
The plot is ludicrous, which in itself would be perfectly acceptable given sharper handling, but both script and direction devote so much time to romantic undercurrents that the central intrigue is further divested of credibility.
Time Out
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