Тренчкот: Мальтадағы платоний іздеушілер мен жазушының хикаясы

1983 film by Michael Tuchner

Trenchcoat is a 1983 American action comedy film directed by Michael Tuchner and starring Margot Kidder and Robert Hays. It was produced by Walt Disney Productions during an era when they began releasing more adult oriented films, including Condorman, Never Cry Wolf, and Tron. The film is set in Malta. A professional writer is working there on her first novel, but she accidentally gets involved in the affairs of plutonium smugglers.

When aspiring mystery writer Mickey Raymond (Margot Kidder) travels to Malta to research her first novel, she finds herself falling in love with Terry (Robert Hays), a handsome, mysterious American. She also finds herself falling into a conspiracy of events, apparently fuelled as much by her vivid author's imagination as real life events. A local police official (David Suchet) is seemingly one step behind these events. Raymond sees it as her odd luck when she becomes embroiled in an international plutonium smuggling ring, and comic chaos ensues. Weary of playing victim, she turns detective to investigate not only the source of her bad luck, but also to find out who the real culprits are. At the end, Terry and Mickey stay together, sealing their relationship with a kiss in the dark.

In February 1981, producer Jerry Leider planned a "$10 million comedy thriller", using the working title, Malta Wants Me Dead, to be released by EMI.

The film was a box office failure, earning only a total of $4,304,286 domestically. The film has been received negatively. Siskel and Ebert named it one of the "Stinkers of 1983".