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Catalog Number

TVA 3769

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Primary Distributor (If not listed, select "OTHER")

HBO (Home) Video

Year of Release

Release Year

1988

Country

United States

Format Details

VHS | N/A | Slipcase

Running Time

109 mins (NTSC)

Audio / Screen / CC

N/A | N/A | N/A

UPC / MSRP

N/A | N/A

Other Distributor

Second Distributor

Orion Home Video

Original Title / Year

F/X (1986)

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Additional Information

Murder by Illusion
Murder! Special effects? This time it's for real!
Special effetcs are his life...and his death?

F/X (also known as or subtitled Murder by Illusion) is a 1986 American action-thriller film about Rollie Tyler (Bryan Brown), an expert in the art of special effects (F/X) with a reputation built by his work on many low-budget hack-and-slash films such as I Dismember Mama. The Department of Justice hires him to stage the murder of a gangster about to enter the Witness Protection Program. He agrees, but then things get complicated. Meanwhile, New York City police detective Leo McCarthy (Brian Dennehy) is investigating the faked murder and cannot understand why the Justice Department is even less helpful than usual.
A sequel, F/X2: The Deadly Art of Illusion, was released in 1991. A spinoff TV series entitled F/X: The Series was produced from 1996 to 1998.