Stakeout

“It's a tough job but somebody's got to do it!”

An escaped convict has vanished, and the one lead the police have is the woman he used to date. Detectives Chris Lecce (Richard Dreyfuss) and Bill Reimers (Emilio Estevez) get the job of watching Maria McGuire (Madeleine Stowe) from a house across the street, night after night. John Badham keeps it loud and quick, and then Chris is alone with the binoculars, looking at her lit window.