Ambition (1991)

The Ambition (1991) of the title refers to star and screenwriter Lou Diamond Phillips as a frustrated author who owns a bookstore. He wants to write a book on the Valentine’s Day Killer, who has been recently paroled. But the reformed murderer isn’t interested. Phillips then offers him a job at his store and substitutes his anti-psychotic medication with baking soda in hopes of kick starting the madman’s bloodlust and getting a good story. But the best character in this potboiler is Katherine Armstrong, who tempts the killer with her killer body. Her skin is the stuff that great (stroke) books are made of.