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Phillip Blackwood (Selleck) is a writer an author of detective novels who, after a four-year bout of writer's block, is desperately seeking new material around the local courtrooms. There he encounters Nina (Porizkova), an enchanting young Romanian woman who's been accused of murder. Inspired by her and believing her to be innocent, he offers to provide her with an alibi. As he spends time with her, however, he's forced to question whether she truly is innocent... and whether he may be next on her list.
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Phillip Blackwood (Selleck) is a writer of detective novels who, after a four-year bout of writer's block, is desperately seeking out new material at around the local courtrooms. There he encounters Nina (Porizkova), an enchanting young Romanian woman who's been accused of murder. Inspired by her and believing her to be innocent, he offers to provide her with an alibi. As he spends time with her, however, he's forced to question whether she truly is innocent... and whether he may be next on her list.
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Phillip Blackwood (Selleck) is a writer of detective novels who, after a four-year bout of writer's block, is desperately seeking out new material at the local courtrooms. There he encounters Nina (Porizkva), an enchanting young woman accused of murder. Inspired by her and believing her to be innocent, he offers to provide her with an alibi. As he spends time with her, however, he's forced to question whether she truly is innocent... and whether he may be next on her list.
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Phillip Blackwood (Selleck) is a writer of detective novels who, after a four-year bout of writer's block, is desperately seeking out new material at the local courtrooms. There he encounters Nina (Porizkva), (Porizkova), an enchanting young woman accused of murder. Inspired by her and believing her to be innocent, he offers to provide her with an alibi. As he spends time with her, however, he's forced to question whether she truly is innocent... and whether he may be next on her list.
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A 1989 romantic comedy film starring Creator/TomSelleck as Phillip Blackwood, a writer of detective novels. After a 4-year bout of writer's block, Blackwood is desperately seeking new material at the local courtrooms. There he encounters Nina (Creator/PaulinaPorizkova), an enchanting young woman accused of murder. Inspired by her and believing her to be innocent, he offers to provide her with an alibi.
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A 1989 romantic comedy film starring Creator/TomSelleck as Phillip Blackwood, a writer of detective novels. After a 4-year bout of writer's block, Blackwood is desperately seeking new material at the local courtrooms. There he encounters Nina, Nina (Creator/PaulinaPorizkova), an enchanting young woman accused of murder. Inspired by her and believing her to be innocent, he offers to provide her with an alibi.
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* [[StabTheScorpion Stab The Cockroach]]: Nina throws a knife with perfect accuracy and impales a giant insect. This is the audience's (and Blackwood's) first hint that she may not be innocent. [[spoiler: And revisited at the end.]]
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* [[StabTheScorpion Stab The Cockroach]]: StabTheScorpion: Nina throws a knife with perfect accuracy and impales a giant insect. This is the audience's (and Blackwood's) first hint that she may not be innocent. [[spoiler: And revisited at the end.]]
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* ExactEavesdropping: Blackwood not only catches the important part of Nina's phone call, but chooses to look up the one word that helps him crack the mystery, "funeral.
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* ExactEavesdropping: Blackwood not only catches the important part of Nina's phone call, but chooses to look up the one word that helps him crack the mystery, "funeral."funeral".
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* PlagiarismInFiction: Blackwood accuses a rival author of this. His editor also advices he do this to get an ending rather than continue the risky business with Nina.
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* PlagiarismInFiction: Blackwood accuses a rival author of this. His editor also advices advises he do this to get an ending rather than continue the risky business with Nina.
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* DeconstructiveParody: Of MarySue pulp fiction heroes.
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* DeconstructiveParody: Of MarySue some pulp fiction heroes.
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They're Romanians, so it would be the Securitate, not KGB.
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* ExactEavesdropping: Blackwood not only catches the important part of Nina's phone call, but chooses to look up the one word that helps him crack the mystery, "funeral."
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* IReadItForTheArticles: The KGB agent, when caught photographing Blackwood's Playboys, says "Good interview!" to cover.
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* IReadItForTheArticles: The KGB Securitate agent, when caught photographing Blackwood's Playboys, says "Good interview!" to cover.
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* {{KGB}}: In all their Eighties glory.
* SecretPolice: The Securitate, communist Romania's dreaded agency, who set Nina up for murder in the US to force her into returning home.
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A 1989 romantic comedy film starring TomSelleck Creator/TomSelleck as Phillip Blackwood, a writer of detective novels. After a 4-year bout of writer's block, Blackwood is desperately seeking new material at the local courtrooms. There he encounters Nina, an enchanting young woman accused of murder. Inspired by her and believing her to be innocent, he offers to provide her with an alibi.
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* {{Plagiarism}}: Blackwood accuses a rival author of this. His editor also advices he do this to get an ending rather than continue the risky business with Nina.
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* {{Plagiarism}}: PlagiarismInFiction: Blackwood accuses a rival author of this. His editor also advices he do this to get an ending rather than continue the risky business with Nina.Nina.
* PrisonRape: One of the Romanian agents tries to threaten Nina this way in the beginning, saying he's heard that "sex with prison guards" is enjoyable. (In his own language, so the police don't understand.) She replies by slapping him.
* SeriousBusiness: [[spoiler:The reason the Romanian government is after Nina is because her family is a group of ''circus performers''; they don't want one of the country's best sources of entertainment to defect.]]
* PrisonRape: One of the Romanian agents tries to threaten Nina this way in the beginning, saying he's heard that "sex with prison guards" is enjoyable. (In his own language, so the police don't understand.) She replies by slapping him.
* SeriousBusiness: [[spoiler:The reason the Romanian government is after Nina is because her family is a group of ''circus performers''; they don't want one of the country's best sources of entertainment to defect.]]
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* TitleDrop: When Phil ''finally'' completes his new book, the title is ''Her Alibi''.
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* DevelopmentHell: Blackwood's novel at movie open.
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* DevelopmentHell: DevelopmentHell (InUniverse): Blackwood's novel at movie open.
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A 1989 romantic comedy film starring TomSelleck as Phillip Blackwood, a writer of detective novels. After a 4 year 4-year bout of writer's block, Blackwood is desperately seeking new material at the local courtrooms. There he encounters Nina, an enchanting young woman accused of murder. Inspired by her and believing her to be innocent, he offers to provide her with an alibi.
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* PopStarComposer: Perhaps partly as Paulina Porizkova was newly married to her boyfriend, bandleader Ric Ocasek at the time, the keyboardist from TheCars, Berklee-trained Greg Hawkes, composed the film score.
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* EscapistCharacter: Despite being a Mary Sue, Peter Swift turns out to be popular anyway due to this trope.
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* PopStarComposer: Perhaps partly as Paulina Porizkova was newly married to her boyfriend, bandleader Ric Ocasek at the time, the keyboardist from TheCars, Berklee-trained Greg Hawkes, composed the film score.
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Trope renaming and misuse cleanup. If you feel like this has been removed incorrectly, please look up the meaning of The End Or Is It and make it clear in your explanation exactly how this trope applies.
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* [[StabTheScorpion Stab The Cockroach]]: Nina throws a knife with perfect accuracy and impales a giant insect. This is the audience's (and Blackwood's) first hint that she may not be innocent. [[spoiler: And revisited at the end for an OrIsIt moment.end.]]
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* MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels: Blackwood's Romanian is... [[{{Understatement}} sub-par]].
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* MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels: Blackwood's grasp of Romanian is... [[{{Understatement}} sub-par]].is a bit tenuous.
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This IS Arson Muder And Jaywalking, EXACTLY. It fits that trope FAR better than What The Fu Are You Doing.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Done in writing form.
--->"Swift's mastery of Tai Kwon Do, Akido, boxing, and macreme had him in good stead."
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A 1989 romantic comedy film starring TomSelleck as Phil Phillip Blackwood, a writer of detective novels. After a 4 year bout of writer's block, Blackwood is desperately seeking new material at the local courtrooms. There he encounters Nina, an enchanting young woman accused of murder. Inspired by her and believing her to be innocent, he offers to provide her with an alibi.
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* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: The end shows Phillip's book is the name of the movie, and a major motion picture starring the film's actors.
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--->"Swift's mastery of Tai Kwon Do, Akido, boxing, and macreme had him in good stead."
* AuthorAvatar / TheAce / ParodySue: An in-universe example with Blackwood's fictional detective Peter Swift.
* EscapistCharacter: Despite being a Mary Sue, Peter Swift turns out to be popular anyway due to this trope.
* HerCodeNameWasMarySue: Blackwood's fictional detective Peter Swift.
* ParodySue
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* WhatTheFuAreYouDoing: Done in writing form.
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** Nina has a couple of issues with English, like when she describes a man who was punished by being hanged upside down by his tentacles.
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* DrivesLikeCrazy: Nina.
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