Rachel Dobbs
Created by Daniel
Taplitz
Neophyte NYC P.I. RACHEL DOBBS, visions of Chandler
dancing in her head, must put up with her sleazoid boss at the
collection agency who won't give her anything more demanding to
do than serving summonses and tracing skips. Her luck changes
when she crosses paths with Harrison Patrick "Harry"
Berg, a flaky goofball artist/gambler/inventor who's in more trouble
than Rachel or he could ever imagine, in The Squeeze, a
barely remembered lightweight 1987 chase flick.
As I recall, actress Rae Dawn Chong mades for an appealing
private eye, but it was Michael Keaton who stole the show as Berg.
Almost everyone hates this film, but for some reason I seem
to remember that I enjoyed it. It wasn't great, but I thought
it was harmless enough, as these things go. I'm almost afraid
to see it again, though, after reading some of the comments on
it.
UNDER OATH
- "The Squeeze, alas, is all MacGuffin and no movie....
Sometimes they hold sneak previews for movies, and ask the audience
to rate the picture on a scale ranging from "excellent"
to "poor." I've got an idea for The Squeeze.
They should hand the audience postcards and ask them to mail
them back a week after seeing the movie - to see if they can
recall anything about the plot. I'm serious. This movie isn't
about anything or anybody, and to remember it is an act of the
will."
(Rober Ebert)
FILMS
- THE SQUEEZE . Buy
this video
(1987, TriStar)
101 minutes
Screenplay by
Directed by Roger Young
Produced by Rupert Hitzig,
Michael Tannen
Associate producers: James
Chory, Gayle Scott
Executive producers: Harry
Colomby, David Shamroy Hamburger
Starring Rae Dawn Chong as
RACHEL DOBBS
and Michael Keaton as Harrison Patrick Berg
Also starring Ric Abernathy,
Danny Aiello III, John Davidson, Bobby Bass, Leslie Bevis, Lou
Criscuolo, Ray Gabriel , George Gerdes, Ronald Guttman, Paul
Herman, Richard E. Huhn, John Dennis Johnston, Meat Loaf, Joe
Pantoliano
Report respectfully submitted by Kevin
Burton Smith. Thanks to Bluefox808
for the leads.
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