Jennifer Eight / Jennifer 8 (1992)

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Jennifer 8 is a 1992 mystical thriller film written and directed by Bruce Robinson and starring Andy García, Uma Thurman, Lance Henriksen and John Malkovich.

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Plot: John Berlin (Andy García) is a cop teetering toward burnout on the streets of Los Angeles and the collapse of his marriage. At the invitation of an old friend, fellow cop Freddy Ross (Lance Henriksen), Berlin bolts from the LAPD for a supposedly quieter life in rural California with the Eureka police force. Instead, Berlin prickles his new colleagues, including John K. Taylor (Graham Beckel), who was passed over for promotion in order to make room for Berlin. After finding a woman's severed hand in a garbage bag at the local dump, Berlin reopens the case of an unidentified murdered girl, nicknamed "Jennifer", which went unsolved despite a full-time six-month effort by the department. Berlin notices scratches on the severed hand's fingers and realizes that they came from reading Braille, determining that the girl is blind. He begins to believe the cases are related. Berlin does his best to convince Freddy and his fellow officers of his suspicions, but Taylor and police chief Citrine (Kevin Conway) refuse to believe that the hand found at the dump is in any way connected to the case. After consulting his former colleagues in southern California, Berlin discovers that in the previous four years, six women, most of them blind, have either been found dead or are still missing, all within a 300 mile radius of San Diego. He becomes convinced that "Jennifer" was the 7th victim and the girl who's hand was found at the dump is "Jennifer 8", or victim 8.

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While investigating the links between the dead and missing blind girls, he meets blind music student Helena Robertson (Uma Thurman), determining that her roommate Amber was the eighth victim. Berlin becomes obsessed with the case, despite an almost complete lack of hard evidence, and he becomes romantically involved with Helena, who resembles his ex-wife. After an attack on Helena, Ross accompanies Berlin on a stakeout at the institute where Helena lives in a dorm, after leaving Helena at a party with Ross' wife Margie (Kathy Baker). When they see a flashlight shining on the same floor as Helena's apartment, Berlin investigates and is knocked unconscious by the killer, who then shoots Ross dead with Berlin's gun. After a grueling interrogation by FBI agent St. Anne (John Malkovich), Berlin figures out that the killer is Taylor, whose killing spree began when he was a San Diego Detective and was prompted by a traumatic childhood spent attending the Daphne Klebe School, an all-girls school for the blind where his mother, also blind, was a teacher. Berlin tries to tell St. Anne and Citrine what he has learned, but St. Anne and Citrine refuse to believe him. Berlin is arrested for Ross's murder, but is bailed out by Margie, who believes the truth that Berlin is not the killer.

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