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“You can't prepare for where the truth will take you.”
Director
Joel Schumacher
Screenplay
Andrew Kevin Walker
Nicolas Cage plays a surveillance specialist hired by a wealthy widow to determine whether a disturbing snuff film found among her late husband's belongings is genuine, a investigation that pulls him into the brutal underworld of illegal pornography with the help of a streetwise video-store clerk played by Joaquin Phoenix. Director Joel Schumacher stages the descent as a grim moral gauntlet, with Cage's character growing more unhinged the closer he gets to the truth, sacrificing his marriage and sanity along the way. The film courted controversy for its unflinching subject matter on release. A dark, punishing thriller that trades typical Schumacher gloss for genuine bleakness.
Release
Feb 26, 1999
Budget
$40M
Country
United States of America
Revenue
$97M
Cast
Nicolas Cage
Tom Welles
Joaquin Phoenix
Max California
James Gandolfini
Eddie Poole
Peter Stormare
Dino Velvet
Anthony Heald
Longdale
Chris Bauer
Machine
Catherine Keener
Amy Welles
Myra Carter
Mrs. Christian
Amy Morton
Mrs. Mathews
Norman Reedus
Warren Anderson
Anne Gee Byrd
Senator
Jack Betts
Butler
Rachel Singer
Neighbor
Don Creech
Mr. Anderson
Fran Bennett
Nun
Wilma Bonet
Nun
Luis Saguar
Manny
Walter K. Jordan
Thug
Norm Compton
Thug
Brian Keith Russell
Thug
Robert Amico
Casting Director
Kiva Dawson
Girl in Hall
Eva Minemar
Girl in Hall
Suzy Nakamura
Computer Wizard
Torsten Voges
Stick
Reviews
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