Her Alibi (1989)

• Year: 1989
• Released: 03 Feb 1989
• Country: United States
• Adwords: 1 nomination
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097500/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/her_alibi
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• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English, Romanian, Spanish
• MPA Rating: PG
• Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
• Runtime: 94 min
• Writer: Charlie Peters
• Director: Bruce Beresford
• Cast: Tom Selleck, Paulina Porizkova, William Daniels
• Keywords: beautiful woman, writer,

	5.8/10
	24/100
	17% – Critics
	44% – Audience

Her Alibi Storyline

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. He is still falling for her, but more and more nervous as time passes, and there are more close calls with death on his part.—John Vogel

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Her Alibi Movie Reviews

A simple, funny, and charming little film

A lot of us go through our quite ordinary lives daydreaming about being these larger than life characters, so I thought that this story about this sheltered and detached mystery writer, Phillip Blackwood, was quite good because of the funny and endearing way it relates to being a dreamer.

I’m a big Tom Selleck fan, since his days as island hopping P.I. Thomas Magnum, and I think he was the perfect fit for the role of Phil Blackwood. Selleck is this tall, good-looking dude who looks the part of your typical hero or action star, but he is able to come across as this almost goofy, nice guy, and I think those are the qualities that make Thomas Magnum and Phillip Blackwood such great characters. The contradictions between the characters’ physical appearances and their personalities make them very easy to like and root for.

I liked the rest of the cast too. Paulina Porizkova was stunningly beautiful and I liked her in her role. The actors who played Blackwood’s agent and brother were very funny in their roles.

I recommend this movie. It is lighthearted, funny, and quite charming.

OK–It’s not “Breaker Morant”

Her Alibi (1989) directed by Bruce Beresford, is a very funny, but totally predictable, murder mystery. Tom Selleck plays Phil Blackwood, a mystery writer whose stories are as predictable as the film’s plot. Phil has run out of creative steam and his reputation is diminishing.

Paulina Porizkova plays Nina, who is a beautiful (very) Romanian who may or may not be a murderer.

From the moment Phil sees Nina, we can guess where the movie is going. In other words, Her Alibi isn’t really a mystery. What makes the film enjoyable isn’t the plot, but the technique Beresford utilizes. We see a scene, and hear Selleck’s voice- over as he writes the scene into his novel. Of course, what we see and what we hear are two totally different versions of reality. The contrast really is very funny.

William Daniels does well as Sam, Selleck’s long-suffering publisher. Porizkova can’t act, but nobody will notice. Selleck plays Selleck.

If you want to see fine film-making, rent Beresford’s Breaker Morant. If you want to laugh at a film with no social significance at all, rent Her Alibi.

Selleck’s humour

It’s true that this film is rather undeep and not particularly demanding. But still, in my opinion, it’s charmy. From this point of view, the film is stylistically correct because the books Philip Blackwood writes are also romantic thrillers with exaggerated characters and no attempt to be serious or even world class. We’re in the world of trash. Of course, the movie can be understood as kind of a parody on the book that’s being written during the film. But on the other hand, it corresponds to it.

Tom Selleck’s humour or maybe only the humour around his role keeps the movie alive. Like in „Folks!`, he is the poor guy, damned to passiveness, who desperately tries to cope with what is happening to him. But here the humour doesn’t arise only from his mishaps but also from the way he falsifies them when transferring them into his novel. Paulina Porizkova is not a convincing actress but in this movie this doesn’t matter because her inflexible face makes her character unfathomable, unpredictable, unlike Philip Blackwood’s stories.

If you want to see a trashy little comedy about trashy little thrillers, this is the right one for you!