Thief of Hearts (1984) review

Professional cat burglar Scott (Steven Bauer) breaks into the house belonging to children's book author Ray (John Getz) and his interior decorator wife Mickey (Barbara Williams), accidentally steals her personal journals, studies them thoroughly, finds out her private desires (unfulfilled by her preoccupied husband) and then sets out to seduce her with this information.  Director Stewart claims he wrote 23 drafts of this, but maybe #24 would have patched up some of the plot holes and other issues - Bauer is a walking red flag, Williams is not all that sharp, the music by Harold Faltermeyer is atrocious - but the obsessive "romance" between the two main characters is kind of alluring and it has a little bit of style to it.  The ending is perverse, too: Mickey and Ray's marriage is "saved" through her infidelity ... and the anti-hero gets away.  Hey, it was the 1980's, you could smoke cigarettes in grocery stores, etc.