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The Black Dahlia (2006)

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Calificación de los usuarios: 5.5/10 (23,752 votes)
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Overview

Director:
Brian De Palma
Writers (WGA):
Josh Friedman (screenplay)
James Ellroy (novel)
Release Date:
15 septiembre 2006 (USA) más view trailer
Frase comercial:
Inspired by the most notorious unsolved murder in California history.
Plot:
Two policemen see their personal and professional lives fall apart in the wake of the "Black Dahlia" murder investigation. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. Another 1 win & 6 nominations más
Comentarios de los usuarios:
over-the-top mess más

Cast

 (Cast overview, first billed only)

Josh Hartnett ... Dwight 'Bucky' Bleichert

Scarlett Johansson ... Kay Lake

Aaron Eckhart ... Lee Blanchard

Hilary Swank ... Madeleine Linscott

Mia Kirshner ... Elizabeth Short

Mike Starr ... Det. Russ Millard
Fiona Shaw ... Ramona Linscott

Patrick Fischler ... Deputy DA Ellis Loew
James Otis ... Dolph Bleichert
John Kavanagh ... Emmett Linscott
Troy Evans ... Chief Ted Green

Anthony Russell ... Morrie Friedman
Pepe Serna ... Tomas Dos Santos
Angus MacInnes ... Capt. John Tierney (as Angus MacInnis)

Rachel Miner ... Martha Linscott
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Additional Details

También conocida como:
Black Dahlia (Germany)
Dalia negra, La (Argentina) (Spain) [es]
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MPAA:
Rated R for strong violence, some grisly images, sexual content and language.
Duración:
121 min
País:
Germany | USA
Idioma:
English | German
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 más
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Trivialidades:
The voice behind the camera interviewing the Black Dahlia is Brian De Palma himself más
Goofs:
Anachronisms: When carrying a box out of Bleichert's father's home, you can see a UPC barcode on the bottom of the box. Barcodes weren't commercially used until 1966. más
Quotes:
[first lines]
Ofcr. Dwight "Bucky" Bleichert: [voiceover] Mr. Fire versus Mr. Ice. For everything people were making it out to be, you'd think it was our first fight. It wasn't. And it wouldn't be our last.
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Movie Connections:
References Black Angel (1946) más
Soundtrack:
In the Mood más

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234 out of 295 people found the following comment useful:-
over-the-top mess, 16 September 2006
Author: Sean H-. (cornflakeboy20) de United States

Anybody expecting to get a great account of the Black Dahlia case, even fictional, will be disappointed going in to this movie. Of course, I knew that it was a fictionalization of the case, but I had no idea the movie would present its own evidence and draw its own conclusions.

But the main problem here is not the lack of factual detail, so much as the confusion of plot that surrounds and overwhelms the Black Dahlia case itself. So much plot and character and sideplots and backstory are built around the central characters that the case itself seems like a distraction. A key plot point and character motivator is the fascination of the two detectives with the murder, but this is never elaborated enough in the film, and we're left to half-heartedly guess at the character motivations.

The tone is never consistently campy, but when the camp arrives it overwhelms the story. A dinner scene between a suspect and her family had the crowd in stitches (the only scene during which the audience laughed). The problem is that the scene is valuable to the plot and should never have been played for laughs. Hitchcock or even Lynch could have shot the same scene, with the same events and dialogue, and made it menacing and creepy, which it needed to be to function in the mystery.

Other problems: De Palma uses the lesbian angle of the movie (never a part of the case) to full exploitative advantage, and the actresses seem unable to master to the expressive 1940s style acting that would have come naturally to even a marginal 40s star.

Although the film brings a clearcut finale rather than a vague puzzle, too many loose threads come together too neatly and rather than bringing the film to a satisfactory conclusion, it leaves you scratching your head, is this what I spent the last 2 hours waiting to hear? Overall, there is too much plot, too little character development and a wildly uneven tone. The movie has its moments but it's a blinding mess all together.

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