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Night Moves is a 1975 film starring Gene Hackman, directed by Arthur Penn. It features very early career appearances by Melanie Griffith and James Woods. The film was written by Alan Sharp. The original music score was composed by Michael Small. The film's tagline is: "Maybe he would find the girl... maybe he would find himself."
An "anti-detective" thriller in the style of Vertigo and the television series The Rockford Files, the film stars Hackman as Harry Moseby, a retired professional football player working as a private investigator in Los Angeles. Moseby is hired by a former actress to find her runaway stepdaughter (Griffith). The case takes him to the Florida Keys and it soon becomes considerably more complicated and dangerous than it had originally seemed.
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Private investigator Harry Moseby is dedicated to his job, but his dedication does not make him happy or powerful in his personal life, and his wife Ellen is unfaithful to him. Aging actress Arlene Iverson hires Harry to find her trust-funded stepdaughter Delly Grastner, distracting Harry from his marital problems as he tracks the lascivious runaway teen to Florida. In the Keys, Harry has an affair of his own with Paula, and he succeeds in locating Delly, even as he learns that finding her is only the beginning of a much larger case. As the "accidental" deaths multiply, Harry discovers that everyone has his or her own motives and that he cannot do much to stem the tide of deep-seated depravity.
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