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Daryl Zero: "I can't possibly overstate the importance of good research. Everyone goes through life dropping crumbs. If you can recognize the crumbs, you can trace a path all the way back from your death certificate to the dinner and a movie that resulted in you in the first place. But research is an art, not a science, because anyone who knows what they're doing can find the crumbs, the wheres, whats, and whos. The art is in the whys: the ability to read between the crumbs, not to mix metaphors. For every event, there is a cause and effect. For every crime, a motive. And for every motive, a passion. The art of research is the ability to look at the details, and see the passion"
Sleazy tycoon Gregory Stark (Ryan O'Neal) is being blackmailed. All efforts to find out who is doing it have failed so Stark hires the reclusive, antisocial, paranoid, genius detective Daryl Zero (Bill Pullman) to solve the case. With help from his assistant Steve Arlo (Ben Stiller), Zero sets up a sting operation to find the blackmailer. But in doing so, he breaks his cardinal rule in all detective work: He becomes emotionally involved.
Also appearing is Kim Dickens.
Written and directed by Jake Kasden.
Run time: 1 hour, 56 minutes
Rated R for language.
My personal rating: B-
Sleazy tycoon Gregory Stark (Ryan O'Neal) is being blackmailed. All efforts to find out who is doing it have failed so Stark hires the reclusive, antisocial, paranoid, genius detective Daryl Zero (Bill Pullman) to solve the case. With help from his assistant Steve Arlo (Ben Stiller), Zero sets up a sting operation to find the blackmailer. But in doing so, he breaks his cardinal rule in all detective work: He becomes emotionally involved.
Also appearing is Kim Dickens.
Written and directed by Jake Kasden.
Run time: 1 hour, 56 minutes
Rated R for language.
My personal rating: B-
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