A glorious blend of screwball comedy and detective story, this scintillating thriller stars Quaid as a New Orleans detective who becomes involved with sexy district attorney Barkin, who is investigating local police corruption. Quaid and Barkin are about the most attractive duo on the screen in years, and their love scenes are among the steamiest, also. If not, you have set your ideals too low. The things one takes seriously are one's weaknesses. Just as many people who claim belief in God disprove it with their ever act, so too there are those whose every deed, though they say there is no God, is an act of faith.
Evolution is a conscious process.
Bathos is that which is intended to be sorrowful but because of the extremity of its expression becomes comic. Pathos is that which is meant to be comic but because of the extremity of its expression becomes sorrowful. Some things which seem to be opposites are actually different degrees of the same thing. The comic hero thrives on his vices. The tragic hero is destroyed by his virtue.