First Degree

When Barry (Jack Scalia) attends his boss's company barbecue, the party goes haywire and things slowly begin to unravel. Barry's warming up the crowd with his playboy ways when Jude (Karen Black), the owner's wife, arrives. Things turn mysterious as she tells the attendees of her husband's death as a result of a failed kidnapping. As the afternoon heats up, clues are revealed that someone at the party was actually involved in the scandalous plot that ended in murder. Trying to solve the mystery, it's revealed that each of the guests had some reason to want their boss dead, and suspicions quickly flare. Before the night is over, those behind the plot will be revealed, and the surviving guests will all go home with a very bad taste in their mouth. (Verleiher-Text)