
In Nightmute, Alaska, seventeen year old resident Kay Connell is found murdered. As a favor to the local Nightmute police chief, two Los Angeles Robbery Homicide police detectives, Will Dormer and Hap Eckhart, are called in to assist in the investigation. Although renowned in the police world, both Dormer and Eckhart are facing some professional issues back in Los Angeles. In Nightmute, Dormer has a major case of insomnia due to a combination of the incessant midnight sun and... (Full plot summary below)
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In Nightmute, Alaska, seventeen year old resident Kay Connell is found murdered. As a favor to the local Nightmute police chief, two Los Angeles Robbery Homicide police detectives, Will Dormer and Hap Eckhart, are called in to assist in the investigation. Although renowned in the police world, both Dormer and Eckhart are facing some professional issues back in Los Angeles. In Nightmute, Dormer has a major case of insomnia due to a combination of the incessant midnight sun and from a secret he is carrying. This insomnia is causing him to be delusional. Something he is not dreaming about is that the murderer has contacted him, informing him all about the murder and the fact that he knows everything that is going on with Dormer. They begin a symbiotic relationship in keeping secrets for each individual's benefit. But ambitious young local detective, Ellie Burr, might piece the story together on her own.
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| New York PostLou LumenickA rare case of an American remake that actually improves on a European movie. |
| eFilmCritic.comErik ChildressBoth a picture in the Hitchcockian tradition designed to purely tingle your senses & a thinking person's drama that constantly defies you to ask, "What would you do?" |
| UK CriticIan Waldron-MantganiThe film is more interested in being a character study than using a complex web of events to gyp us around. |
| Star-Democrat (Easton, MD)Greg MakiEverything fits together and complements every other aspect of the film, from the visuals of the desolate landscape to the sharp editing to the moody music. |
| eFilmCritic.comRob GonsalvesThis director has an unerring knack for arresting imagery and disorienting narrative. |
| Portland OregonianShawn LevyAbout as good a movie as you could have hoped for. Really good. Hole-in-one good. |
| Washington PostDesson ThomsonSomething to treasure: a thriller whose style, structure and rhythms are so integrated with the story, you cannot separate them. |
| USA TodayMike ClarkA perfect fit between filmmaker (Memento's Christopher Nolan) and material (Norway's same-name psycho-chiller from 1997), this remake gets all there is to get out of a peculiar premise with promise. |
| eye WEEKLYJason AndersonRemarkable for its intelligence and intensity. |
| New York ObserverRex ReedInsomnia is not my kind of arsenic, but it's so well-made and enigmatic I liked it anyway. |