Two gifted high school students execute a perfect murder - then become engaged in an intellectual contest with a seasoned homicide detective.Two gifted high school students execute a perfect murder - then become engaged in an intellectual contest with a seasoned homicide detective.Two gifted high school students execute a perfect murder - then become engaged in an intellectual contest with a seasoned homicide detective.
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- TriviaThe characters Richard Haywood and Justin Pendleton are loosely based on real-life murderers Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold.
- GoofsIt is said that there are no fingerprints from Justin or Richard, but they are shown carrying Olivia's dead body wrapped in plastic to the car and neither of them have gloves on, thus there should have been fingerprints from Richard and Justin found on the plastic that the dead body was wrapped in.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Six Feet Under: I'll Take You (2002)
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Murder to watch. But Sandra, I still love you!
This is exactly what Hollywood does badly. Very Badly. Typically awful who-dunnit featuring more bluffs and double bluffs than you could shake a stick at. This movie is up there with horrendous plotless rambles like Copycat, Along Came A Spider and even Kiss the Girls. Horrendous in that it is possible to work out just about every plot detail in the first 25 minutes. The constant "twists" and "surprises" are tedious to say the least.
Don't get me wrong I like Sandra Bullock but when is she going to get a role that truly makes her shine. She seems to manage to choose the wrong movies time after time. I think she should maybe look to more comedy roles as I feel some of her best parts have been in films like Demolision Man and even last years Miss Congeniality wasn't too bad (ok it was was that bad but not as bad as Murder By Numbers).
Michael Pitt on the other hand is awesome. I saw him in Bully not so long ago in which he was fantastic and also last years Hedwig and the Angry Inch. He does evil particularly well. I think he could be destined for very great things.
And what the hell is Chris Penn doing in this tripe?! Nice guy Eddie is far better than this!
It was worth going to see this movie just for the guys walking around in the Slipknot costumes whenever they were going to murder someone.
On the whole this film was very poor, it scores only a ** out of ***** on the Meejoir-meter. But if Sandra Bullock is reading this, I still love you!
Don't get me wrong I like Sandra Bullock but when is she going to get a role that truly makes her shine. She seems to manage to choose the wrong movies time after time. I think she should maybe look to more comedy roles as I feel some of her best parts have been in films like Demolision Man and even last years Miss Congeniality wasn't too bad (ok it was was that bad but not as bad as Murder By Numbers).
Michael Pitt on the other hand is awesome. I saw him in Bully not so long ago in which he was fantastic and also last years Hedwig and the Angry Inch. He does evil particularly well. I think he could be destined for very great things.
And what the hell is Chris Penn doing in this tripe?! Nice guy Eddie is far better than this!
It was worth going to see this movie just for the guys walking around in the Slipknot costumes whenever they were going to murder someone.
On the whole this film was very poor, it scores only a ** out of ***** on the Meejoir-meter. But if Sandra Bullock is reading this, I still love you!
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- Jul 16, 2002
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- $50,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $31,945,749
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $9,307,394
- Apr 21, 2002
- Gross worldwide
- $56,714,147
- Runtime1 hour 55 minutes
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- 1.85 : 1
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