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Movie
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-Al
Pacino
-Robin
Williams
-Hilary
Swank
In a
remote
Alaskan
town
called
Nightmute,
the
murder
of a
teenage
girl
has
shocked
the
tight-knit
community.
The
Los
Angeles
Police
Department
sends
two
of
its
cops--both
under
investigation
by
Internal
Affairs--to
try
to
solve
the
crime
in
Christopher
Nolan's
film
based
on
Erik
Skjoldbjærg's
1997
Norwegian
film
starring
Stellan
Skarsgård.
The
experienced,
weathered
Will
Dormer
(Al
Pacino)
has
nothing
in
life
except
for
the
force.
His
younger
partner,
Hap
(Martin
Donovan),
has
a
family
to
support
and
is
willing
to
turn
state's
evidence
to
protect
them.
Local
cop
Ellie
Burr
is
excited
to
work
with
her
hero,
Dormer--until
she
starts
uncovering
some
questionable
situations.
It
isn't
long
before
Dormer
finds
the
murderer--writer
Walter
Finch,
played
with
subtle
nuances
by
Robin
Williams--but
Finch
knows
a
secret
that
could
bring
Dormer
down.
Director
Nolan,
who
stunned
audiences
with
2001's
inventive
MEMENTO,
here
crafts
an
atmospheric
psychological
thriller
that
is
bathed
in
whites
and
grays.
The
acting
is
uniformly
excellent,
especially
Pacino's
performance
as a
cop
on
the
edge
and
Williams
as a
soft-spoken,
low-rent
crime
novelist.
Because
it
never
gets
dark
in
Alaska
at
this
time
of
year,
Dormer
(a
play
off
the
Spanish
word
"dormir,"
which
means
"to
sleep")
is
unable
to
fall
asleep,
light
always
streaming
into
his
hotel
room;
watching
him
slowly
unravel
is a
treat.
Portions
of
this
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1948-2006 Muze
Inc.
and
Muze
Europe
Ltd.
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