The Butch’s Girlfriend Award for the Weakest Link in the Film
Lithgow’s extreme craziness
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- Lithgow’s Burke is the weak-link candidate for excessive craziness: a political setup escalating into serial murder strains plausibility, though the objection is to degree rather than eliminating him.
- The portrayal is defended through De Palma’s recurring maniacal Lithgow roles and because Burke’s serial-killer cover story ultimately succeeds in hiding the political connection.