Now Jack is being blackmailed. Director Robert Benton wrote this with novelist Richard Russo. Benton and Newman collaborated most recently on the 1994 movie version of Russo's Nobody's Fool. Sad to say, but Twilight feels inferior to the earlier effort. Can't blame the acting at all.
Problem is, it has a way of slipping into the genre pastiche mold.
Not that we wouldn't welcome it there, if it would just stay there. But Benton seems to be depending on such atmospheric niceties because, frankly, the underlying mystery of Twilight isn't particularly involving and the identity of the perpetrator is hardly a secret. But the work of the principals is so good that it's possible to put reservations aside. By my calculation, whenever Newman, Sarandon and Hackman are in the same scene, there's something like 107 years of film-acting is up there on the screen, and it shows.