Rating: R
Genre: Thriller
Theatrical Release: 09/25/1987(USA)
Release Date: 06/04/2002
SubTitles: English/French/Espanol
Dubbed: English/French/Espanol
Sound: DD1
Run Time: 95 Minutes
Flags: Violence, Brief Nudity, Nudity, Adult Situations, Not For Children, Adult Language, Profanity
Distributor/Studio: MGM

Brian Dennehy plays a Wambaugh-type cop who has flourished as a novelist. At the moment, however, Dennehy is suffering from a profound case of writer's block. Coming to the rescue, as it were, is professional hit man James Woods. Recently dumped by his boss, above-suspicion business executive Paul Shenar, Woods is anxious to tell his life story to Dennehy, in hopes of striking it rich with a tell-all bestseller. Shenar, however, takes a dim view of Woods' indiscretions, and for a while it looks as though it's curtains for both Dennehy and his teenaged daughter Allison Balson. Screenwriter Larry Cohen has claimed that Best Seller was based on Strangers on a Train.

~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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Cast:
James Woods - Cleve
Brian Dennehy - Detective Lieutenant Dennis Meechum
Victoria Tennant - Roberta Gillian
Allison Balson - Holly Meechum
Paul Shenar - David Madlock
George Coe - Graham, Madlock's Lawyer
Anne Pitoniak - Mrs. Foster
Mary Carver - Cleve's mother
Sully Boyar - Monk
Kathleen Lloyd - Annie
Harold Tyner - Cleve's Father

Production:
John Flynn - Director
Carter DeHaven III - Producer
Jay Ferguson - Composer
David Rosenbloom - Editor
Larry Cohen - Screen Writer
Chris A. Butler Susan Kaufman - Set Designer
Robert Howland - Art Director
Richard Baum - Assistant Properties
John Phillips - Assistant Sound Editor
Ben Batzdorff - Best Boy Electric
David Bodin - Best Boy Grip
Steve Stephens - Boom Operator
Christopher Tufty - Camera Operator
Diane Dimeo - Casting
Michael McLean - Casting
Fred Murphy - Cinematographer
Dorothy Amos - Costume/Wardrobe
Mary Law Weir - Costume/Wardrobe
Murshel Lewis - Costume/Wardrobe
Sandra Culotta - Costume/Wardrobe
Dylan Shephard - Dolly Grip
Curtis Pepper - Electrician
Eric Ward - Electrician
Ricardo Delgado - Electrician
Derek Gibson - Executive Producer
John Daly - Executive Producer
Dan Parada - Extra Casting
Rick Montgomery - Extra Casting
Claude Debussy - Featured Music
Don Devine - First Assistant Camera
Rudy M. Fenenga, Jr. - First Assistant Camera
David C. Anderson - First Assistant Director
Deborah Zimmerman - First Assistant Editor
Dan O'Connell - Foley Artist
Ellen Heuer - Foley Artist
R. Michael Stringer - Gaffer
Michael Neale - Grip
Tim Collins - Grip
Pamela Peitzman - Hair Styles
Dylan Shephard - Key Grip
Robert G. Santarella - Leadman
Deborah Figuly - Makeup
Pamela Peitzman - Makeup
Susan Kaufman - Makeup
Allan K. Rosen - Music Editor
Budd Carr - Musical Direction/Supervision
Jim Mathews - Production Accountant
Tony Schwartz - Production Assistant
Janet Lee Smith - Production Coordinator
Gene Rudolf - Production Designer
Jack Roe - Production Manager
Lee Alexander - Production Sound Mixer
James A. Rathbun - Properties Master
Marilyn Bailey - Script Supervisor
Philip Lee - Second Assistant Camera
Leo Zisman - Second Assistant Director
Karen Miller Ehrlich - Second Second Assistant Director
Bundy Chanock - Set Medic/First Aid
Jean Paul Martini - Songwriter
Lamont Dozier - Songwriter
Hal Sanders - Sound Editor
Joseph A. Ippolito - Sound Editor
Mike Warner - Sound Editor
Pieter Hubbard - Sound Editor
Donald O. Mitchell - Sound/Sound Designer
Kevin O'Connell - Sound/Sound Designer
Rick Kline - Sound/Sound Designer
Ken Speed - Special Effects
Peter Kunz - Special Effects
Robert Olmstead - Special Effects
Lorey Sebastian - Still Photographer
David Lux - Storyboard Artist
Chuck Hicks - Stunts
Conrad Palmisano - Stunts
Steve Lambert - Stunts
Steve Lambert - Stunts Coordinator
Bill Phillips - Supervising Sound Editor
Randy Bostic - Swing Gang
Phill Norman - Title Design
Paul Kurta - Unit Production Manager
Barbara Harris - Voice Casting
Julianne Berdrow - First Assistant Accountant

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