Striking Distance

Year of Publication
1993
Publication Type
Screenplay
Number of Pages or Episodes
114 p.
Language
English
Contributors Author: Rowdy Herrington
Author: Marty Kaplan
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Abstract
Tom Hardy (Bruce WIllis), a maverick cop, pursues a serial killer dubbed the Polish Hill Strangler. When Hardy suggests the murderer is a fellow police officer, he's demoted to the river rescue squad but fights back by starting his own unauthorized investigation.
Notes
The film also stars Dennis Farina and Sarah Jessica Parker and was filmed in Pittsburgh and Allegheny County's Elizabeth and Harrison Twp. The script is held in Beverly Hills at the Margaret Herrick Library of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Author Biography
Marty Kaplan (1950— ) served as a writer-producer for Disney Studios; chief speech writer for Vice President Walter Mondale during the Carter Administration; and dean of the Annenberg School of Communication & Journalism at the University of Southern California. Rowdy Herrington (1951— ) is native of Pittsburgh's East Liberty neighborhood and Penn Hills, Allegheny County. A graduate of Penn State, he directed or wrote a half dozen feature films. He lives in Montana.
Time

1991-3

Published
unpublished
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