Still of the Night (film)

Still of the Night is a 1982 American psychological thriller film directed by Robert Benton and starring Roy Scheider, Meryl Streep, Joe Grifasi, and Jessica Tandy. It was written by Benton and David Newman. Scheider plays a psychiatrist who falls in love with a woman Streep who may be the psychopathic killer of one of his patients.

Manhattan psychiatrist Dr. Sam Rice Roy Scheider is visited by glamorous, enigmatic Brooke Reynolds Meryl Streep, who works at Crispinsa fictitious New York auction house modeled after Christies. Brooke was having an affair with one of Rices patients, George Bynum Josef Sommer, who has just been murdered. Brooke asks the doctor to return a watch to Bynums wife and not reveal the affair.Rice is visited by NYPD Detective Vitucci Joe Grifasi but refuses to give any information on Bynum, a patient for two years. After the police warn him that he could become a target because the killer may believe he knows something, Rice reviews the case files detailing Bynums affairs with various women at Crispins, including Brooke. Bynum had also expressed concern, claiming a wealthy friend had once killed someone, and Bynum was the only person who knew about this. He wondered if this friend might kill again. ........

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