How Out of Sight Became One of the Landmark Movies of the 90s

Out of Sight took a depressed leading man still reeling from his ill-fated adventures in the batsuit, a director in the midst of an existential crisis, and a leading woman on the verge of pop music megastardom and turned them into a perfectly paired trio. In the end, they made one of the landmark movies of the 90s. We just didn't realize how important it was at the time.

A roguish, almost achingly handsome man sits across from an elegant woman, the pair exchanging flirtations with the effortless charm of Bogey and Bacall. They know each other, but ...