Stephen D. Newman

A comic thriller in the Hitchcock style in which an out-of-towner who shares a taxi with a beautiful stranger mails a mysterious package on her behalf. But when she is murdered, he is suddenly pursued by the police, hitmen and sinister spies who think he knows something.

Aspiring author Stingo (Peter MacNicol) shares a Brooklyn boarding house with winsome Polish émigré Sophie (Meryl Streep) and her mercurial lover, Nathan (Kevin Kline) -- a union unsettled by Nathan's violent behavior and Sophie's disturbing recollections of her wartime experience. Stingo discovers that Sophie is a fraud, though, when her accounts of her stint at a Nazi concentration camp unravel, laying bare the real source of her torment.

Gene Wilder plays Michael Jordon, an innocent by-stander turned victim, turned hero. Kate Hellman (Gilda Radner) falls in love with him while looking for her brother's murderers. Together they are caught in a world of international intrigue, suspense and murder. Ransom (Richard Widmark), a ruthless adversary,is intent on eliminating Michael. Pursued by Ransom, Michael and Kate embark on a bold mission which takes them on a wild ride in an airplane high above the Grand Canyon, to a hidden military command center, through a frenzied chase in the streets of New York and to a desert outpost where attackers besiege them from all sides.

In this political drama, U.S. senator Joe Tynan finds that the line between his principles and his political ambition begins to blur when he's asked to spearhead an effort to derail the confirmation of a Supreme Court nominee.