The Minus Man (1999)

Avaliação/utilizador:

6,1/10   

Diretor:

Hampton Fancher

Escritores (WGA):

Lew McCreary (novel)
Hampton Fancher (screenplay)

Data de Lançamento:

8 Outubro 1999 (USA)

Gênero:

Drama | Mistério | Suspense

Chamada:

Don't see it alone. Unless you like talking to yourself.

Argumento:

A cold-blooded serial killer floats around the country and chooses his victims from people who complain...

Plot Keywords:

Serial Killer | Poison | Based On Novel | Independent Film

Prêmios:

1 win & 4 nominations

Comentários dos utilizadores:

Hello...and goodbye

Elenco

Owen Wilson	...	Vann
Sheryl Crow	...	Casper
Dwight Yoakam	...	Blair
Dennis Haysbert	...	Graves
Alex Warren	...	State Trooper
Mercedes Ruehl	...	Jane
Chloe Black	...	Karen - Age 18
Brian Cox	...	Doug
Eric Mabius	...	Gene
Larry Miller	...	Paul
Lois Gerace	...	Lois
Erik Holland	...	Coach
Danny 'Big Black' Rey	...	Arthur (as Daniel 'Big Black' Rey)
Janeane Garofalo	...	Ferrin
Axel Ovregaard	...	Joe La Moine

MPAA:

Rated R for language and a scene of drug use.

Duração:

111 min

País:

USA

Língua:

Inglês

Cor:

Cor

Aspect Ratio:

1,85 : 1

Som:

Dolby Digital

Certificação:

Iceland:12 | Singapore:NC-16 | Germany:12 | USA:R (#36873)

Locais de filmagem:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Companhia :

Shooting Gallery

Pegadinha:

Cameo: [Lew McCreary]The author of the novel on which the movie is based has a role as the man in the diner.

Goofs:

Vários: Vann writes Ferrin's name on an envelope with his hair in it and writes "FERRiN" with a dot over the i. Later when he mails the letter it is "FERRIN" with a capital I.

Citações:

Vann Siegert: I've never really cared for lakes.
Ferrin: [laughing] You don't *care* for lakes? Why? Why do you not *care* for lakes?
Vann Siegert: I don't know. Lakes are like... stepping into somebody else's underwear.

Conexões:

Referido em Film Geek (2005)

Tilha Sonora:

Soft Shoe Shuffler

Hello...and goodbye

Watching this movie, you will most probably start thinking about other titles. I'm my case they are Psycho, Arsenic and Old Lace, A Shadow of Doubt, A Beautiful Mind and The Night of the Hunter. I also had to think of Todd Solondz' Palindromes. The Minus Man is successful where Palindromes dismally fails; in creating a setting which is located between everyday reality and the dreamscape of personal imagination.

The main character comes out of nowhere and vanishes there again. In between horror invades the proverbial Smallville USA. Evil probably never had a gentler appearance. It is useless to explain what happens and why, as this is not a movie which wants to explain anything.

The story is seen from the perspective of a mass murderer. Something is terribly wrong with this meek, likable young man. He sometimes faints, has regular and recurring visions, suffers from a split personality - and likes to kill people. You are never sure if what he perceives is reality or figments of his imagination. Most people he meets act at times very strange and unnatural, even the way he sees objects is often very unsettling (the big, diamond shaped glass pane in the entrance door of his „adoptive parents" is one of the scariest things for me in this movie).

What to me seemed unique in Minus Man is the way the disturbed man deals with the fact that something is wrong: He just seems to integrate everything into his everyday routine. Even the recurring dreams of Kafkaesque interrogations by a racially mixed team of some kind of investigators are faced with a cool, detached demeanour. In a strange, scary way the man seems to have found peace with himself and his condition. Others will have to pay with their lives.

The Minus Man boasts an ensemble cast that is simply awesome. For some reason the female parts made a particularly deep impression on me, especially Mercedes Ruehl as the „adoptive mother" and Alex Warren as the supernatural state trooper. Janeane Garofalo is really cute and easily the most uplifting character of the movie. Watch her bungalow – it seems to come right out of a children's book of fairy stories.