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The saintly Omar Ibn el Khattab, second successor to Muhammad and the Muslim conqueror of Jerusalem in a.d. 638, declined an invitation from the Christian Patriarch to pray at the Holy Sepulcher for fear his followers might then want to turn the site into a mosque.
Schmidt quotes from King Lear , and Begley intends a soft echo of that play in his tale of an aged patriarch quarreling with a daughter.
Not a whodunnit at all, it's more like a postmodern western, the parable of an unruly patriarch driven to madness by a long line of unruly patriarchs before him; an impotent vigilante in search of something--anything--to shoot.
The plot lines aren't particularly surprising or clever, but the dialogue is sharper and wittier than average and William Devane (of Knot's Landing fame) is particularly appealing as the family patriarch, Sgt.
"Nelson," said the patriarch, "whom are we trying to impress?"