Running time 113 minutes
Language English
Format 35mm color / ratio 1:1.85
Sound Dolby stereo digital

CRIMETIME  (1995)
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Starring
Stephen Baldwin, Pete Postlethwaite, Sadie Frost,
Geraldine Chaplin, Karen Black

Directed by
George Sluizer

Plot Summary
Set  in a future  in which the media has become nearly omnipotent, this terrifying crime thriller blurs the thin line between life and art while commenting upon the insanity of those who would do anything for fame. The trouble begins when unemployed actor Bobby is hired to play a serial killer on a crime re-enactment series.
Wanting to fully understand the killer’s motivations, Bobby begins researching the crimes of recent murders. By the show’s taping, Bobby has become an expert. Soon afterward, Bobby becomes a star, something that delights the real culprit and inspires him to go on to even more headline-grabbing crimes.

Screenplay by
Brendan Somers

Produced by
David Pupkewitz
Co-producer Rainer Kolmel /Kinowelt
Executive Producer: Barry Barnholtz / Trimark Pictures
Marc Vlessing & Philip Alberstat
Channel 4 Television
Co-executive producer George Sluizer

A Focus Films /Kinowelt Production

Crew
Director of photography – Jules van den Steenhoven
Production designer – Bernd Lepel
Costumes – Jany Temime
Casting – Liora Reich
Editor – Fabienne Rawley
Sound – Tony Dawe
Music Producer – Ray Williams
Music – David Stewart
Line producer – Raymond Day

Cast
Bobby – Stephen Baldwin
Sidney – Pete Postlethwaite
Val – Sadie Frost
Thelma – Geraldine Chaplin
Millicent Hargreave – Karen Black
Club singer – Marianne Faithfull
Crowley – James Faulkner
Simon – Philip Davis
Lady Macbeth – Susan Bertish

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