
After making a 3-hour fiasco about New York City's water supply, a two-man film crew decides to take it up a notch by documenting life in the private investigator offices of "Boone and Murphy". Cheating husbands and missing dogs fail to bring in the big bucks however, and after sleeping with the wife of one of their clients Murphy leaves. To stop Boone from having to close down the business the two film-makers must resort to a hands-on approach in the investigations to ensure... (Full plot summary below)
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After making a 3-hour fiasco about New York City's water supply, a two-man film crew decides to take it up a notch by documenting life in the private investigator offices of "Boone and Murphy". Cheating husbands and missing dogs fail to bring in the big bucks however, and after sleeping with the wife of one of their clients Murphy leaves. To stop Boone from having to close down the business the two film-makers must resort to a hands-on approach in the investigations to ensure the completion of their movie.
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| Reel.comMatt ReichlSuccessful screen humor comes from witty spins on the believable, not wheezing broad stabs like this. |
| TheMovieReport.comMichael DequinaFor all the cleverness in its premise, director-co-scripter Daniel Pyne doesn't mine it for all of its potential. |
| New York PostLou LumenickWhere's Marlowe? was expanded from a TV pilot produced for ABC. Small wonder it never found its way on the air. |
| User Reviewmike hone of the most under rated films out there. A hidden gem, a classic film on the genre and the process, one of my faves, i love these kind of films, people usually don't because most people are retards and zombies and suck ass and don't know whats good, usually the people in the middle that are sheep, you suck you have ruined tv and all the greatest tv shows have been cancelled because your all too stupid to understand them, and love the crap, because your crap, thanks for nothing losers |
| User ReviewKate GI'm surprised more people haven't seen or reviewed this. It's an excellent movie and I'm surprised at the rating. It was really brilliant. I loved it. |
| User ReviewAllen RCombines many of favorite things: faux documentaries, hard-boiled crime and detective stories, subtle dark comedy, and the under-rated acting talents of Mos Def and Miguel Ferrer. |
| User ReviewNoura GWhy do i like this movie so much? Mos Def is in it!!! You might have to watch this movie like 5x's before you get it. It's a movie within a movie. |
| User ReviewMike MVery much a product of the postmodern 1990s, with a minor role for John Hawkes as a nerdy, Tarantino-like camera-store know-it-all, a monologue hymning Welles's use of lenses in "Citizen Kane", and a couple too many clever-clever, deconstructive pullbacks to the editing suite that, in the early stages at least, threaten to halt both momentum and the prevailing breezy, good-natured mood. Still, Pyne - a screenwriter of some repute ("The Hard Way", the "Manchurian Candidate" redo) - has fun shuffling Boone's various cases, and obliging the characters to either play up to, or shy away from, the camera in a fashion that foresees the docusoaps and reality television of the decade that followed... it shambles amiably and affectionately towards the conclusion the camera can only ever get in the way of real and lasting human connections. |