The Black Dahlia (Widescreen Edition)

The Black Dahlia (Widescreen Edition)
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From the acclaimed director of Scarface and the author of LA Confidential comes the spellbinding thriller The Black Dahlia. Two ambitious cops, Lee Blanchard (Aaron Eckhart) and Bucky Bleichert (Josh Hartnett), investigate the shocking murder of an aspiring young starlet. With a corpse so mutilated that photos are kept from the public, the case becomes an obsession for the men, and their lives begin to unravel. Blanchard's relationship with his girlfriend Kay (Scarlett Johansson) deteriorates, while Bleichert finds himself drawn to the enigmatic Madeleine (Hilary Swank), a wealthy woman with a dark and twisted connection to the victim.
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The Black Dahlia drips with film noir atmospherics as it unspools a lurid and complicated story taken from James Ellroy's true-crime-inspired novel of the same name. Two boxers-turned-cops--Lee "Mr. Fire" Blanchard (Aaron Eckhart, Thank You For Smoking) and Bucky "Mr. Ice" Bleichert (Josh Hartnett, Black Hawk Down)--are morally tested as they pursue the killer of a young would-be actress, grappling with corruption, narcissism, stag films, and family madness along the way. L.A. Confidential turned Ellroy's heated prose into a taut, compelling movie, but The Black Dahlia collapses like a soggy meringue. Director Brian De Palma (who once made such vibrant, entertaining movies as Carrie and The Untouchables) can't muster the energy to craft one of his trademark bravura action sequences and seems outright bored by the more mundane tasks of shaping performances and establishing mood. The actors flounder; Eckhart seems to be emoting for two, perhaps to compensate for Hartnett's bland lack of affect; even actresses as dependable as Scarlett Johansson (Lost in Translation) and Hilary Swank (Boys Don't Cry) give clumsy, unconvincing performances. The one exception is an unsettling performance by Mia Kirshner (Exotica) as the doomed actress, seen only in perverse screen tests and stag films. The story is incomprehensible (and when you can follow it, it's silly); the dialogue is atrocious; the characters make hardly any sense from scene to scene. The movie is, however, good for many moments of absurd camp, such as when Bucky enters the most lavish, palatial lesbian bar you'll ever see, featuring a Busby-Berkeley-style stairway of smooching babes and a crooning k.d. lang. --Bret Fetzer

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Actor(s):
Josh Hartnett
Scarlett Johansson
Hilary Swank
Aaron Eckhart
John Kavanagh

Creators:
Vilmos Zsigmond (Cinematographer)
Mark Isham (Composer)

Director(s):

Recording label: Universal Studios
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
EAN: 0025192918025
Binding: DVD
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC,
Release date: 2006-12-26
Universal product code (UPC): 025192918025
Number of discs: 1
Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
Audience rating: R (Restricted)
Region code: 1
Running time: 121 minutes
Language: English (Unknown)
Language: English (Subtitled)
Language: Spanish (Subtitled)
Language: French (Subtitled)
Language: English (Original Language)
Language: German (Original Language)
Language: French (Dubbed)
Language: Spanish (Dubbed)
Brand: NBC Universal

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