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The Big Fix (1978)

The Big Fix poster
Directed by
Jeremy Kagan
Genre
comedy drama, political thriller film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 46m
Rated
PG
Rating
5.8 of 10 from 39 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A private detective gets pulled into a political mystery when an old girlfriend asks him to look into a smear campaign. He uncovers secrets and danger while sorting through his own past along the way.

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What happens

The Big Fix is a 1978 American political comedy thriller film directed by Jeremy Kagan and based on the 1973 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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