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"Dead's a good alibi."
"Dead's a good alibi."
LA Detective Chandler Manning (Alfred Molina) thought he'd solved the multiple cases of murder of prostitutes a la Jack the Ripper several years before, but when new murders begin to surface, it's apparent that perhaps the man who was executed for the previous murders was innocent.
Ellen Bunting (Hope Davis) and her husband (Donal Logue) have a strained marriage. Ellen seems very fragile and needy and her husband keeps secret his own life as a security guard and what other things he does between work and home.
Ellen rents out a large shed-type apartment behind their home to the mysterious Malcolm (Simon Baker) who says he is a writer and needs seclusion and no interruptions.
As the murders continue, Detective Manning and his rookie pertner Wilkenson (Shane West) uncover possible evidence, sometimes illegally, to try to solve the case.
Others in the cast include Philip Baker Hall as Police Captain Smith. Rachael Leigh Cook as Manning's college student daughter Amanda, and Mel Harris as Manning troubled wife Margaret.
Based on a 1913 novel by Marie Belloc Lowndes and also a remake of Alfred Hitchcock's 1927 film The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog. Screenplay written and directed by David Ondaatje.
Run time: 1 hour, 36 minutes
Rated R for violent content, language and brief nudity.
My personal rating: B
Ellen Bunting (Hope Davis) and her husband (Donal Logue) have a strained marriage. Ellen seems very fragile and needy and her husband keeps secret his own life as a security guard and what other things he does between work and home.
Ellen rents out a large shed-type apartment behind their home to the mysterious Malcolm (Simon Baker) who says he is a writer and needs seclusion and no interruptions.
As the murders continue, Detective Manning and his rookie pertner Wilkenson (Shane West) uncover possible evidence, sometimes illegally, to try to solve the case.
Others in the cast include Philip Baker Hall as Police Captain Smith. Rachael Leigh Cook as Manning's college student daughter Amanda, and Mel Harris as Manning troubled wife Margaret.
Based on a 1913 novel by Marie Belloc Lowndes and also a remake of Alfred Hitchcock's 1927 film The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog. Screenplay written and directed by David Ondaatje.
Run time: 1 hour, 36 minutes
Rated R for violent content, language and brief nudity.
My personal rating: B
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