In this entertaining thriller, an obsessed college professor (the ever-watchable Jeff Bridges), who lectures on the history of terrorism, finds himself drawn helplessly into a shady world of violence.

After the death of his FBI agent wife, he now lives with his 10-year-old son in a leafy Washington DC suburb. But Bridges escapes his grief when he begins voicing suspicions about his new neighbours (Tim Robbins and Joan Cusack).

In this royally good British thriller, ambitious newsman Nick Mullen, played by then-newcomer Gabriel Byrne, latches on to a Profumoesque exposé, and a prominent Labour MP (Ian Bannen) resigns.

There's a story bigger than Watergate ripe for the writing but can Mullen survive to tell the tale? Director David Drury keeps the plot on a tight rein. The excellent Byrne is edged out by Denholm Elliott as a dandruffed, alcoholic war horse of the newsroom

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