"A surveillance wizard becomes involved with the underworld after his wife's suicide."[3]
Penfield Gruber is a former scientist and surveillance expert who resigned and now runs a neglected motel.[4] Criminals offer him money to spy on a resident, under coercion.[5][6][7][8][9][10]
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Yoram Allon, Del Cullen, Hannah Patterson - 2002 1986 also saw two other films: the gymnastics movie Flying and a poor knock-off of Coppola's The Conversation (1974) called Blindside with Harvey Keitel ..
^"Blindside (1987) - Paul Lynch". AllMovie. Retrieved 14 June 2023. The principal character is a onetime surveillance expert, who after purchasing a motel can't resist the temptation of spying on his guests.... Before long, our peeping-tom protagonist is up to his chin in drug-traffic intrigue.