| Genre: | Crime Mystery |
| Director: | Martha Coolidge |
| Starring: | Dirk Benedict Sydney Walsh Bruce Dern |
| Music: | John Debney |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Executive Producer: | Josh Kane Michael Ogiens |
| Producer: | Harvey Frand |
| Location: | Honolulu |
| Editor: | Jack Harnish |
| Cinematography: | John Jensen |
| Runtime: | 100 minutes |
| Company: | Finnegan/Pinchuk Productions MGM Television |
| Network: | CBS |
Trenchcoat in Paradise is a 1989 American made-for-television mystery-crime film directed by Martha Coolidge, and starring Dirk Benedict, Sydney Walsh, Catherine Oxenberg, Michelle Phillips and Bruce Dern.[1] [2]
Eddie Mazda (Dirk Benedict) is a hard-nosed private investigator originally from Jersey City, New Jersey. After working a job for a widow named Nan Thompson (Amy Yasbeck), he soon after is confronted by mob boss Dom Gellatti (Ralph Drischell), the man who killed Mrs. Thompson's husband. Having already ransacked Mazda's film studio for any incriminating pictures against him for fear of federal prosecutions, Gellatti gives Eddie the chance to back down by forcing him to leave Jersey City and never come back, or else. After gathering some of his possessions, leaving a phone message to his ex-wife Vicky, and leaving his pet goldfish with the next-door neighbor and her cat, Mazda is escorted by two of Gellatti's goons to the airport and given a plane ticket to Chicago and some money; instead, he decides to go to Hawaii, taking with him film negatives that he managed to hide from the mobsters.