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Ed Okin is an aerospace engineer in Los Angeles who cannot sleep. He learns his wife Ellen has been unfaithful, and a friend named Herb suggests he take a drive to clear his head. That night Ed ends up in the parking garage at the airport, where a young woman named Diana climbs into his car and begs him to get her away from the four Iranian agents chasing her. Diana is a jewel smuggler, and the men after her belong to SAVAK. She persuades Ed to drive her from one stop to the next, and he finds himself pulled into her flight through the city.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Into the Night (1985)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Three weeks into the film's 60-day shoot, director John Landis was ordered to stand trial for involuntary manslaughter over the shoot of Twilight Zone: The Movie.
- Landis conceived the insomniac engineer Ed Okin as an older man and wanted Jack Nicholson or Gene Hackman; Nicholson turned it down and Universal vetoed Hackman, then ordered Landis to cast a Big Chill actor, which gave Jeff Goldblum the part.
- Composer Ira Newborn was told to write a motion picture score built around one performer, blues singer B.B. King, without compromising the musician's unique talents or the film's integrity.
- Into the Night was the first box-office failure of John Landis's career, which he said surprised him because he had not done anything different.
