Impulse

Apr 6, 1990

1h 49m

★ 5.5

It's easy to lose control.

Overview

A Los Angeles vice cop, caught between her undercover role as a sex worker and her personal relationships, is thrown into a web of murder and deceit.

Genres

Thriller

Crime

Production Companies

Warner Bros. Pictures

Impulse Trailers

Cast

Lottie Mason

Theresa Russell

Stan

Jeff Fahey

Lt. Joe Morgan

George Dzundza

Charley Katz

Alan Rosenberg

Rossi

Nicholas Mele

Dimarjian

Eli Danker

Frank Munoff

Charles McCaughan

Dr. Gardner

Lynne Thigpen

Tony Peron

Shawn Elliott

Luke

Angelo Tiffe

Steve

Christopher Lawford

Edge

Nick Savage

Jimmy McNamara is an ex-writer and WWII vet turned accountant who receives a call from Vivian, his ex-fiance and nightclub singer. Vivian got a Hollywood contract and is taking Jimmy with her. All he has to do is retrieve the negatives of compromising pictures that put her bright future in danger. But Jimmy's mission might not be as simple as it seems.

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