"Black Dahlia" not quite noir
Brian De Palma has made many interesting, off-beat films as director. In “The Black Dahlia” he goes a little far and loses much of the sense of things as he tells this story of comradeship, love and perversion and murder in the form of the woman the press named The Black Dahlia..This film was shot in Los Angeles, California and in Pernik, Bulgaria, at an estimated cost of $50 million.This film follows two detectives in 1940s Los Angeles working the murder of Elizabeth Short (Mia Kirshner),. In a subplot, the two detectives, Dwight "Bucky" Bleichert (Josh Hartnett) and Lee Blanchard (Aaron Eckhart), are caught in a love triangle with Kay Lake (Scarlett Johansson). Blanchard and Bleichert dig deep into the murder and it gradually consumes
their lives, plunged into the depths of an urban underworld rife with pornography, femmes fatales, corrupt police and depraved criminals, a graphic and bloody trail to the solution of the Black Dahlia's murder.Most of the acting is up to par, but Johansson is weak and almost clutters the film. Hillary Swank is wasted in her minor role. Some good fight scenes, a bit of near porn and a look at inside the LA police department.Rated R for its sex scenes, it runs two hours and four minutes and was released in 2006.Actor RoleJosh Hartnett Dwight 'Bucky' BleichertScarlett Johansson Kay LakeAaron Eckhart
Lee BlanchardHilary Swank Madeleine LinscottMia Kirshner Elizabeth Ann Short/The Black DahliaMike Starr Det. Russ MillardFiona Shaw Ramona LinscottPatrick Fischler Deputy DA Ellis LoewJames Otis Dolph BleichertJohn Kavanagh Emmett LinscottTroy Evans Chief Ted GreenAnthony Russell Morrie FriedmanPepe
Serna Tomas Dos SantosAngus MacInnes Capt. John TierneyRachel Miner Martha LinscottVictor McGuire Sgt. Bill KoenigGregg Henry Pete LukinsJemima Rooper Lorna MertzRose McGowan Sheryl SaddonDan Ponce MpGraham Norris CopMike O'Connell Shore PatrolMichael P.
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