Out Cold is a 1989 American black comedy film directed by Malcolm Mowbray (who made 1984's A Private Function), and stars John Lithgow, Teri Garr and Randy Quaid.

The film is set in and around San Pedro, Los Angeles, California - 'the Edward Hopper streets and storefronts create a world where the script plays itself out in all its linear precision.

'[2] Sunny (Teri Garr) hires a private detective (Randy Quaid) to trail her husband Ernie (Bruce McGill), whom she believes is lavishing time and money on other women.

But she is impatient and kills Ernie, taking a chance to make his business partner, Dave (John Lithgow), think he did it.

Lester Atlas, the private detective, thinks he has pictures of Ernie's lover visiting him at the shop but has actually photographed Sunny on the night she killed him.