Foul Play

Gloria Mundy, a librarian in San Francisco, leads a quiet life until she gives a ride to a stranger whose car has broken down. The man turns out to be a police officer carrying evidence of a conspiracy, and when he is killed during their first date at a movie theater, Gloria is drawn into a plot involving religious fanatics and a planned attack on a visiting dignitary. The police doubt her story, but a lieutenant named Tony Carlson comes to believe her and sets out to protect her, and together they try to stop the conspirators before it is too late.

Colin Higgins directed and wrote the film, which was released in 1978 and was the first of the three features he directed. Goldie Hawn and Chevy Chase lead the cast as Gloria and Tony, with Burgess Meredith, Eugene Roche, Dudley Moore and Marilyn Sokol in supporting roles. The film runs 116 minutes and was made for about 5 million dollars, a modest figure that it comfortably recovered, taking roughly 45 million dollars worldwide.

On IMDb it holds a rating of 6.8 from about 19,000 votes, and on TMDB a rating of 6.3 from 274 votes. A critics' rating of 6.6 from 31 reviews places it broadly in line with those audience scores, suggesting a middling but generally favorable reception.