# No Way Out (1987)

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**Runtime**: 114 min
**Genres**: Thriller, Drama
**Directed by**: Roger Donaldson
**Written by**: Robert Garland
**Starring**: Kevin Costner, Gene Hackman, Sean Young, Will Patton, Howard Duff, George Dzundza

> *Is it a crime of passion, or an act of treason?*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

A Norfolk hallway at 0300, ice clinking in a glass. A lieutenant and a woman disentangle in a motel’s neon haze. The woman’s body is found in cherry blossoms by the Potomac. The case lands on him—same motel, same cheap cologne on his tie.

**Mood tags**: paranoid

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