Still of the Night (1982)

	Directed by: Robert Benton	COUNTRY USA GENRE Thriller NORWEGIAN TITLE I ly av mørket RUNNING TIME 93 minutes
	Produced by: Arlene Donovan
	Written by: Robert Benton

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Dr. Sam Rice	Roy Scheider	½
Brooke Reynolds	Meryl Streep	½
Dr. Grace Rice	Jessica Tandy	½
Joseph Vitucci	Joe Grifasi
Gail Phillips	Sara Botsford	½
George Bynum	Josef Sommer	½

Review

This film was Robert Benton's first outing since his hugely successful Kramer vs. Kramer, and yet again he teams up with a young and somewhat raw Meryl Streep. The story is overplotted, and the homage to Hitchcock and other thrillers from his era is both overdone and carries too little distance, which in effect conceals the homage and makes the film come off as more of a bad copy. Still, Streep shows glimpses of her pure talent, and Roy Scheider carries the film agreeably forward through everything from tense and well-shot pursuit scenes to ludicrous psychobabble.