There's a lot of talent behind the EYES OF LAURA MARS including director Irvin Kirshner (The Empire Strikes Back) writer John Carpenter (Halloween, Escape from New York) actress Faye Dunaway and a very young Tommy Lee Jones.
Alas, these talents don't ever quite gell in this silly, style over substance 1978 thriller.
Dunaway is New York fashion photographer Laura Mars, who suddenly starts having visions of people around her getting brutally murdered.
The problem is, she is seeing these murders real time.
Tommy Lee Jones is the police detective who has a hard time believing her story but then suddenly in about ten minutes falls in love with Laura, for no other reason than the script tells him to, I guess.
The people Laura surrounds herself with are pretty unappealing, but some great character actors like Brad Dourif manage to escape the film with little damage.
There seems to be some over-arching wanna be message about the violent themes of Laura's work and the murders, but that comes and goes. Dunaway is in full "Mommie Dearest" mode and overacts like a high school understudy while most of the models don't exactly do anything resembling acting.
Producer Jon Peters got his then girlfriend Barbara Streisand to sing the main title theme and actually most of the music is the best thing in the film, but Babs was definitely slumming here.
At least all the people that got their eyes poked with an ice pick in the movie didn't have to actually watch this!
A goofy, meandering and pointless D.
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