The January Man

A killer comedy that has an ex-cop trailing a serial murderer… and the mayor’s sexy daughter! Kevin Kline leads an all-star cast that includes Susan Sarandon, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Harvey Keitel and Rod Steiger., Eccentric ex-cop Nick Starkey is drafted back into the NYPD to catch a serial killer, despite having been fired from the force for corruption., Crime comedy in which a New York serial killer claims his eleventh victim in as many months forcing the police commissioner, against his better judgement, to put his brother on the case. The offbeat cop teams up with the mayor’s daughter – whose best friend was the last victim – and his neighbour, and together they try to figure out the time and location of the next murder., In retribution for maverick methods, a cop is expelled from the force and goes to work as a fireman, but then he is recruited back to the NYPD to help smoke out a serial killer., This offbeat police thriller with heavy doses of humor was written by John Patrick Shanley, the former playwright who wrote Cher’s hit romantic comedy Moonstruck. Kevin Kline stars as Nick Starkey, a brilliant former New York City police detective who has been exiled to the fire department because of his unorthodox ways. He’s called back to service by his police commissioner brother Frank (Harvey Keitel) in the hopes that he can find a bizarre serial killer who’s been murdering one woman a month. Nick’s condition to agreeing to help is that he gets to cook dinner for Frank and his snooty wife Christine (Susan Sarandon), a former girlfriend of his. Ultimately, Nick uses his Zen-like intuition and some high-tech computer hardware (with prominent product placement plugs) to find the killer, pausing to have an affair with the mayor’s beautiful daughter Bernadette (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio. In the improbable conclusion, Nick figures out the exact day the killer will strike and the exact apartment! January Man is too tongue-in-cheek to be taken seriously as a thriller. In addition to Keitel and Sarandon the stellar supporting cast includes Rod Steiger as the mayor and Danny Aiello as a tough police captain who rails against Nick’s “beatnik” ways.