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The Big Fix is a 1978 American political comedy thriller film directed by Jeremy Kagan and based on the novel by Roger L. Simon, who dramatized his own novel for the screen. It stars Richard Dreyfuss as private detective Moses Wine and co-stars Susan Anspach, Bonnie Bedelia, John Lithgow, and F. Murray Abraham.
Oct 6, 1978 · The Big Fix: Directed by Jeremy Kagan. With Richard Dreyfuss, Susan Anspach, Bonnie Bedelia, John Lithgow. An ex-'60s radical now working as a private eye is hired by an old flame to investigate a political smear campaign. The case becomes more dangerous as it unfolds.
- (2.4K)
- Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
- Jeremy Kagan
- 1978-10-06
On the other hand, you can bring the detective up to date. That's what “The Big Fix” does, with its divorced hero who solves cases while baby-sitting for his two kids, and who is referring to Berkeley in 1963 when he talks about delving into the past.
Misfit private investigator and single father Moses Wine (Richard Dreyfuss) is tapped by his former college flame, Lila Shay (Susan Anspach), to dig into a political smear attack on the campaign ...
- (16)
- Jeremy Kagan
- PG
- Richard Dreyfuss
The Big Fix begins as a light comedy, but makes a sudden shift to serious private eye mode. Moses Wine, a character based on books by Roger Simon, is a Jewish former Berkley radical turned cynical divorced father of two boys. This little known gem is highly recommended.
- (1.4K)
- Universal Pictures
- Jeremy Kagan
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An ex-'60s radical now working as a private eye is hired by an old flame to investigate a political smear campaign. The case becomes more dangerous as it unfolds. In Los Angeles, Moses Wine, who was part of the counter-culture of the late 1960s at UC-Berkeley, still has those radical feelings but no longer does anything about them. His wife ...
