‘HER ALIBI’ REINVENTS NOTHING BUT IS GOOD TIME
A comedy from the 80s with a popular star of the 80s, Her Alibi is a little clunky, but it’s fun.
Her Alibi (1989) Film Review
Pressure mounts for Phil Blackwood (Tom Selleck) to pen his next best-selling novel. But it’s just not in him. His agent has opinions about this and how Phil should go about fixing his writer’s block. Pat doesn’t go for his method and instead tries to find inspiration by visiting a courtroom. Hoping his next story is in one of the bail cases, what he’s more struck by is an intriguing and beautiful woman who is up for suspicion of murder.
Nina (Paulina Porizkova) is accused of murder, but since it’s her that sparks an idea, Phil decides to become her alibi. Trouble is, no one really knows if she’s a victim or actually a killer!
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One of the movies that has been floating around as an option on free streaming for a long time now, it’s a title I that I did scroll past a million times. Based on cursory reading, this film wasn’t well received and was also one in which the cast didn’t get along behind the scenes. The whole reveal bit isn’t impressive, but this is also true of other productions I’ve seen through the years, so if I forgive it in those, I forgive this too. Whatever is true, all I can say with certainty is that Her Alibi is fun.
The film doesn’t reinvent anything and isn’t memorable in an impressive production way, but fun (the arrow bit made me laugh) is had. Think of this as an early days version of something like Killers or Knight and Day.
Stream, at publication, on Plex, Roku or Tubi TV; it’s also on Hoopla; or digitally purchase on places like Prime Video
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Content: there is some sexual innuendo including comments about why someone doesn’t have sex. This applies to both reality and while reading a fictional book. There is also a scene where characters make out and fall back on a bed, implying they have sex. The film is PG-13.
