A world-weary private detective is hired to track down a wayward, runaway teenage girl, but what starts out as a simple missing persons case twists and turns, revealing a complex fraud involving art treasures, drug smuggling and murder. Thriller, starring Gene Hackman, James Woods and Melanie Griffith, making her film debut.

Private detective and former football player Harry Moseby gets hired on to what seems a standard missing person case - a former Hollywood actress wants Moseby to find and return her daughter. Harry travels to Florida to find her, but he begins to see a connection between the runaway girl, the world of Hollywood stuntmen, and a suspicious mechanic when an unsolved murder comes to light.