In one of director Brian De Palma's (DRESSED TO KILL MISSION IMPOSSIBLE) many cinematic tributes to Hitchcock (this one borrows from VERTIGO) Cliff Robertson portrays an American businessman whose wife & child are killed in a botched kidnap rescue effort Years later while in Italy the still-distraught widower begins an affair with a woman (Genevieve Bujold) whose resemblance to his late wife is rather uncanny The script was co-written by Paul Schrader (TAXI DRIVER RAGING BULL)