Still of the Night

Shrink Sam Rice (Roy Scheider) at the auction house where his murdered patient worked, given a tour (by Sara Botsford) and delivered to cop Vitucci (Joe Grifasi) then, after learning she’s the main suspect, pretending not to know Brooke (Meryl Streep) in Robert Benton’s Still Of The Night, 1979.

A murder discovered on a still Manhattan evening, then Roy Scheider is shrink Sam Rice, the game on his radio fixing the date at 10/2/1978, when Meryl Streep appears, confirming that the victim was his patient, opening writer-director Robert Benton’s Hitchcock-y Still Of The Night, 1979.

After spooky events in the basement of his apartment, therapist Sam (Roy Scheider) is surprised by Brooke (Meryl Streep), lover of his married murdered patient (Josef Sommer, later seen in flashback), replacing a statuette she broke at his office, in Robert Benton’s Still Of The Night, 1979.