Sketch Artist (1992) (TV)

	Directed by: Phedon Papamichael	COUNTRY USA GENRE Crime/Thriller NORWEGIAN TITLE - RUNNING TIME 88 minutes
	Produced by: Brad Krevoy Steven Stabler
	Written by: Michael Angeli

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Det. Jack Whitfield	Jeff Fahey
Rayanne Whitfield	Sean Young
Det. Milon	Frank McRae
Daisy Drew	Drew Barrymore
Paul Korbel	Tchéky Karyo	½
Lt. Tonelli	James Tolkan
Claire	Stacy Haiduk
Leese	Charlotte Lewis

Review

An appropriately scruffy-looking Jeff Fahey turns in a believable and energetic performance as a police sketch artist who draws what he believes may be his wife based on a description by a murder witness, and must then balance his work duties while trying to figure out what happened. Sketch Artist is a typical 1990s crime thriller in pacing and plot development, for better or worse, but the direction is slick, and the film plays out like a sexy foreplay: the premise is intriguing, the music enticing, and there is steam in the air. That is until the finale, which features cardboard bad guys who would seem more in place being cuffed by Mickey Mouse than exposed by a wolf-like Fahey. A young Drew Barrymore impresses in the few scenes she has as the witness.