Douglas phones in his performance

This is basically a made-for-TV movie. It is cheap looking in a TV movie way and has a lot of dubbed in dialogue. Michael Douglas affects some kind of Southern accent which he switches on and off whenever he is talking. You will also notice a factual error, which is no big deal, but an error nonetheless. At one point the protagonist says he is from Albany -- I think -- and later his girlfriend says something about the dead hooker 'she followed you up here,' (paraphrase). Well isn't this turkey of a movie supposed to be in Louisiana or somewhere? Also in keeping with the TV movie slightness of this thing, the plot and all of its 'revelations' are entirely telegraphed -- you see them coming a mile away. Douglas is enough of a big shot in Hollywood that he can get roles like this and was probably one of the reasons the movie got financing to be made in the first place. However, I doubt that James Cameron is losing any sleep over it.