Crimetime

Crimetime is a 1996 British thriller film starring Stephen Baldwin, Pete Postlethwaite, Sadie Frost and directed by George Sluizer.

For the Australian film, see Crimetime (1993 film).

Crimetime
Directed byGeorge Sluizer
Produced byGeorge Sluizer
David Pupkewitz
Phil Alberstat
Barry Barnholtz
Marc Vlessing
Written byBrendan Somers
StarringStephen Baldwin
Pete Postlethwaite
Sadie Frost
Geraldine Chaplin
Karen Black
Rory Campbell-Wheeler
Music byDavid A. Stewart
CinematographyJules van den Steenhoven
Edited byFabienne Fawley
Release date
United States:
August, 1996
United Kingdom:
29 November 1996
Running time
118 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget₤4.3 million[1]

Plot

Crimetime is set in the future where the media is nearly omnipotent. When an unemployed actor named Bobby (Stephen Baldwin) is hired to play a serial killer on a crime reenactment television series he desires to understand the killer's motivations and begins researching the crimes getting police officers to describe the grisly details of recent murders. Bobby becomes an expert and a star, which delights the real culprit and inspires him to go on to even more lurid, headline-grabbing crimes.

Reception

Crimetime was released to negative critical reaction mainly noting the confusion of the plot.[2] Shlomo Schwartzberg of Boxoffice magazine stated "Crime Time makes little sense at its best of times. At its worst, it's unwatchable."[3] Channel 4 in their review noted that in spite of " a decent cast and the odd stylistic flourish this psychodrama is dragged down by histrionic plotting, clunky talk and general sense of confusion over what it wants to be."[4]

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References
  1. Alexander Walker, Icons in the Fire: The Rise and Fall of Practically Everyone in the British Film Industry 1984-2000, Orion Books, 2005 p269
  2. "Crimetime Movie Reviews". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 24 October 2008.
  3. "Movie Reviews > Crimetime". Box Office (magazine) Boxoffice. Archived from the original on 5 February 2010. Retrieved 24 October 2008.
  4. "Crimetime Moviereview 1996". Channel 4. Retrieved 24 October 2008.


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