]At Detective Williams"" home after knocking on the front door and being greeted by Mrs.Williams, Jeffrey is ushered into he detective""s study, where a girl-next-door portrait of the police detective""s daughter Sandy (Laura Dern) is on the desk - her first image in the film.With the tagline: "Expect the impossible again."Directed by John Woo, with excessive expectations of replicating Woo""s HK action films, such asThe Killer (1989).That evening, a private catered dinner party (prepared by her chef) was hurriedly set up in Marie""s Wayland Hotel suite, where she planned to graciously entertain the exclusively-invited guests with piano playing (by Mr.The main character, an alcoholic writer, loses his money, his freedom, and his sense of reality when confined in an alcoholic ward.