Flesh and Bone

Small-time Texas businessman Arlis Sweeney ( Dennis Quaid ) can never shake the memory of his father's ( James Caan ) wasted life. What particularly sticks in his craw is the murder committed years earlier by his father and a teenaged accomplice. While going through the by-rote motions of his job (he supplies vending machines), Arlis strikes up a friendship with hardcase hitchhiker Kay Davies ( Meg Ryan ). Slowly, Kay helps Arlis put his life in order. And then, Arlis suddenly realizes where he's seen Kay before. — Hal Erickson