The Passenger

Saw this last night at the Varsity and liked it a lot. Jack Nicholson plays David Locke, who at the beginning of the movie is a reporter in Saharan Africa trying to get an interview with rebels mounting an insurrection in an unnamed country. After failing at this and returning to his hotel he discovers the body of Robinson, a mysterious British expatriot staying in the next room and a dead ringer for Locke himself. Locke doesn't take long to hatch a plan to get out of the rut in which he apparently hasn't found himself, and along the way meets a young girl played by Maria Schneider.