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MPAA Rating: R Content Advisory: Violence, Nudity, Strong Sexual Content, Not For Children, Profanity, Substance Abuse Movie Release: 1991 DVD Release: 04/29/1998 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV Audio Tracks: English, French, Spanish Subtitles: English, French, Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 44 mins Studio: HBO Home Video Total Copies: 18 Genres: Crime, Thriller, Action Thriller

Ricochet, a suspenseful, exciting police thriller that loses its way at the end, is the story of a good cop whose life is destroyed by an obsessed psychotic criminal whom he sent to prison years before. Nick (Denzel Washington) is a successful happily married police officer with a distinguished record. He is drugged, kidnapped and framed by Blake (John Lithgow) who has never forgiven him for arresting him years before. Nick must redeem himself both to the police force, his family and the public who had come to love and respect him. Denzel Washington is excellent in his role of the good man in an impossible situation. John Lithgow, while always interesting, is completely over-the-top as the psychotic criminal, and the film looses plausibility during an extended and highly improbable and unbelievable final chase sequence around the Watts Towers. Despite these flaws, Ricochet is an exiting suspense film with a fine performance by Washington and worth watching despite its disappointing conclusion. ~ Linda Rasmussen, All Movie Guide

Denzel Washington - Nick Styles
John Lithgow - Earl Talbot Blake
Ice-T - Odessa
Kevin Pollak - Larry
Lindsay Wagner - Priscilla Brimleigh

Russell Mulcahy's action film Riccochet comes to DVD with a standard full-frame transfer. The English soundtrack is rendered in Dolby Digital 5.1, a French soundtrack has been recorded in Dolby Digital Surround, and a Spanish soundtrack is available in Dolby Digital Mono. There are no subtitles, but the English soundtrack is closed-captioned. Supplemental materials are limited to cast biographies. For a disc with only a pan-and-scan image and without any compelling extras, this HBO/Rysher disc is priced a little high. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide