# Still of the Night (1982)

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**Runtime**: 91 min
**Genres**: Thriller, Drama, Horror
**Directed by**: Robert Benton
**Written by**: Robert Benton, David Newman
**Starring**: Roy Scheider, Meryl Streep, Jessica Tandy, Joe Grifasi, Sara Botsford, Josef Sommer

> *If looks could kill...*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Concrete ceiling fan in her Upper West Side apartment hums white noise.
A woman in a trench coat knocks on a psychiatrist’s door at dusk, her perfume clinging to his couch.
Like Fritz Lang’s color-drenched paranoia reissued by Woody Allen.

**Mood tags**: paranoid, slow-burn

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