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Genres:
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Crime /
Drama /
Thriller
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Director:
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Barbet Schroeder
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Actors:
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Chris Penn,
Ben Chaplin,
Neal Matarazzo,
Janni Brenn,
John Vickery,
Michael Canavan,
Krista Carpenter,
Jim Jansen,
Sandra Bullock,
Ryan Gosling,
Michael Pitt,
Agnes Bruckner,
R.D. Call,
Tom Verica,
Adilah Barnes
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Duration:
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120 min.
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Rating:
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(5.9/10)100
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Plot Summary:
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Richard Haywood, a Californian high equip's coolest kid, secretly teams up with another plenty kid in his class, brilliant nerd Justin 'Bonaparte' Pendleton, whose erudition, exclusively in forensic matters, allows them to diagram elaborately complete murders, just for the kick, for which they set up Richard's marijuana supplier, their secondary's janitor Streak Feathers, as a psychotic serial killer. The case is assigned to detectives Cassie 'the hyena' Mayweather, who carries a sequoia-size participate b interrupt on the shoulder from her previous life, and her brilliant up to date partner,... Sam Kennedy, who at most transferred from the transgression squad; they can work together barest by a long way, and even outburst romantically, but fall prohibited settled different maestro attitudes road to the investigation, which Captain Rod Cody and her understandably vindicatory hurt ex, Assistant D.A. Al Swanson, on the double proscribe her from when she disobeys instructions and hand to him. When the plotting boys both note caste-mate Lisa Mills, their unnatural constraints comes under stress- desire it burst in, allowing the hard-pressed police to bring to them down?
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Murder by Numbers
Good if not exactly original tale of teens killing for the hell of it, directed by a back-to-his-best Schroeder and starring a resurgent Sandra Bullock
Murder By Numbers is based on the 1924 case of Richard Leopold and Nathan Loeb, a pair of wealthy teens who murdered 14-year-old Robert Franks for kicks. This killing also provided the inspiration for Alfred Hitchcock's Rope, Richard Fleischer's Corruption and Tom Kalin's Swoon. With such well-worn source material, Murder By Numbers ought to be as unpalatable as yesterday's chips.
But it's actually a hugely watchable, genuinely suspenseful thriller. A big hand must go to screenwriter Tony Gayton, who puts an interesting spin on the old story by pitting the killers (Gosling and Pit...
Murder by Numbers
Think of Murder by Numbers as a classic 1940s double bill uneasily contained within the confines of a single motion picture.
The A-picture at the top of the bill is a fairly standard star vehicle like those that used to be specially tailored for Joan Crawford or Barbara Stanwyck. This one features established diva Sandra Bullock as Cassie Mayweather, a sharp-tongued "get the hell out of my crime scene" type of homicide detective who has to solve the toughest case of her career.
The B-picture at the bottom of the bill is an intriguing study in aberrant psychology that stars hot young actors Ryan Gosling and Michael Pitt as two high school thrill killers who commit a murder to see if they can get away with it and thus prove their superiority to the comm...
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