Everybody Wins Miller, Arthur
Description : In his first original screenplay since The Misfits ( ) Arthur Miller has spun a taut sophisticated drama of seduction and corruption in a small Connecticut city long past its industrial prime. Tom O Toole (Nick Nolte) a crusading private detective is summoned to town by the enigmatic Angela Crispini (Debra Winger) a woman of less that spotless reputation. Angela begs Tom to investigate the case of Felix
Daniels a local boy convicted of brutally murdering his uncle. She insists that Felix is innocent and despite his reservations Tom is relentlessly drawn in as much by the rising sexual tension between them as by the tantalizing hints she keeps dropping about the case.As Tom pursues various leads he finds that the whole town knows Felix is innocent and that the identity of the murderer the leader of a bizarre local cult is no big secret either. The mystery then is why everyone seems perfectly happy to let Felix rot in jail and why Angela who holds the key won t tell Tom the whole truth.Everybody Wins with a provocative preface on the role of language in screenwriting is a richly atmospheric masterfully plotted suspense story but of course in the hands of Arthur Miller it is much more. As always in the work of this great American playwright it is a complex exploration of morality public and private where the real mystery lies in the elusive core of the human personality.