Night Moves

About Night Moves

Private detective and former football player Harry Moseby gets hired on to what seems a standard missing person case - a former Hollywood actress wants Moseby to find and return her daughter. Harry travels to Florida to find her, but he begins to see a connection between the runaway girl, the world of Hollywood stuntmen, and a suspicious mechanic when an unsolved murder comes to light.

Night Moves is a 1975 crime thriller film directed by Arthur Penn. The film is filed under divorce, private detective, scuba diving, and stuntman.

Gene Hackman stars as Harry Moseby, Jennifer Warren as Paula, John Crawford as Tom Iverson, and Susan Clark as Ellen Moseby. It runs 100 minutes and was released in June 1975.

The screenplay is by Alan Sharp.

Drive, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, and Who Framed Roger Rabbit make useful companions to Night Moves, all filed under neo-noir and dolphin. TMDB voters put it at 6.7 out of 10 across 381 votes and it carries a R rating.