Movies
August, 1990
There are a few good reasons to see After Dark, My Sweet (Avenue), an otherwise so-so thriller adapted from a novel by the late Jim Thompson, whose nihilistic epics seem to enthrall moviemakers (his books are the source for at least three other imminent American films). After Dark's main attraction is Rachel Ward, wired and constantly watchable as a tantalizing, alcoholic widow who needs money and gets involved with the wrong guys in a misbegotten kidnap caper. Her first partner is a local known...
