V.I. Warshawski

V.I. Warshawski is a 1991 film directed by Jeff Kanew. It was intended to be a film franchise for star Kathleen Turner, but never happened after the film was a critical and commercial failure. The film was based on a series of books by Sara Paretsky. Screenwriters Edward Taylor, David Aaron Cohen, and Nick Thiel adapted only one of Sara Paretsky's novels, Deadlock, for the script to the film. This script took at least one liberty with the story: whereas Paretsky had written the original novel as a serious mystery, Taylor, Cohen, and Thiel took an almost comedic approach.
==Plot==
Victoria "V.I" Warshawski is a Chicago based private detective who agrees to babysit for her new boyfriend; then he is murdered. Being the detective type, she makes the murder her next case. In doing so she befriends the victim's daughter, Kat, and together they set out to crack the case.
==Cast==
*Kathleen Turner - V.I. Warshawski
*Jay O. Sanders - Murray Ryerson
*Charles Durning - Det. Lt. Bobby Mallory
*Angela Goethals - Katherine "Kat" Grafalk, Bernard's Daughter
*Nancy Paul - Paige Wilson Grafalk
*Stephen Meadows - Bernard "Boom-Boom" Grafalk
*Stephen Root - Mickey
*Wayne Knight - Smeissen
*Mike Hagerty - Babe
*Lee Arenberg - Flesh
==Critical reception==
Janet Maslin of The New York Times had mixed thoughts about the film but commended the acting:
Roger Ebert of The Chicago Sun-Times gave the film 3 out of 4 stars and also praised Turner's performance:
Turner's performance as the title character was the one detail Sara Paretsky, who had created the character and written the film's source novel, Deadlock, found fit to praise, criticizing the majority of the other elements.
==Box office==
The movie debuted poorly at the box office.
==External links==
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