What’s Aged the Best?
Evidence planting; menswear and haircuts; Los Angeles; Figgis; Metcalf; marriage tension; co-parenting; revised ending; mall security; cuckolding.
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- Evidence planting remains an effective fictional device, especially before ubiquitous cameras and phones.
- The good investigator beginning to resemble the corrupt man he pursues.
- Off-duty menswear, including Gere's polo and sunglasses, remains contemporary.
- Figgis contributing music and appearing as Nancy Travis's dinner companion.
- Los Angeles as a vibrant crime-film setting, and Gere and Garcia's early-1990s haircuts.
- Laurie Metcalf excels despite a limited role and has strong chemistry with Garcia.
- The unusual sexual slang root, made ironic by Peck's affair with Van's wife.
- Unfinished suburban developments as crime-film locations and suspiciously expensive houses revealing corruption.
- Faye Grant's performance and the tense Garcia–Travis marriage, with her sexual frustration and his fixation on work.
- Peck's unconventional co-parenting and the dirty-cop excuse that a woman is his informant.
- Replacing the convoluted original ending, with a threatened assault, shooting, window fall and apparent drowning, after hostile test reactions.
- Xander Berkeley as Rudy and cops forced to work second jobs as mall security.
- The cuckolding theme is much more widely recognized in contemporary culture.