"keep the plot a secret and don't spoil the fun for future audiences".

So audience are warned as they leave the theatre! Let's just say that the action unfolds in a converted Connecticut stable, stuffed with souvenir weapons, where Sidney Bruhl, a once-successful Broadway thriller writer, broods on the fact that he hasn't had a smash in 18 years. Adding insult to injury, he receives in the post, a perfect example of the genre written by a young "twerp" whom he recently taught in a creative- writing class...............!