Best Seller (1998, VHS)

I'm a big James Woods fan. His manic characters seem to play well with me. But for whatever reason, I had never seen this movie until this weekend. The movie stars Woods as "Cleve," a former corporate hit man who helped executive David Madlock (Paul Shenar) found and then grow a company. The initial startup capital came from a robbery of a police depository that Cleve pulled off in 1972. Fifteen years later, the sole surviving policeman of the robbery, Dennis Meechum (Brian Dennehy,) has written a successful novel on the robbery and is working somewhat unhappily as a detective. He hopes to...