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Murder by Numbers
- Director: Barbet Schroeder
- Writer: Tony Gayton
- Producer: Sandra Bullock; Frank Capra III
CGiii Comment
The Leopold and Loeb case, AGAIN - Compulsion, Rope, Swoon - updated, re-worked and, unfortunately, unimproved.
The ending may be a veritable homage to Hitchcock...but, it just doesn't work.
This is nothing compared to Schroeder's earlier work - we can all have a bad day.
This was a very bad day.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
Richard Haywood, a Californian high school's coolest kid, secretly teams up with another rich kid in his class, brilliant nerd Justin 'Bonaparte' Pendleton, whose erudition, specially in forensic matters, allows them to plan elaborately perfect murders, just for the kick, for which they set up Richard's marijuana supplier, their school's janitor Ray Feathers, as a psychotic serial killer. The case is assigned to detectives Cassie 'the hyena' Mayweather, who carries a sequoia-size chip on the shoulder from her previous life, and her brilliant new partner, Sam Kennedy, who just transferred from the vice squad; they can work together very well, and even fit romantically, but fall out over different professional attitudes towards the investigation, which Captain Rod Cody and her understandably vindictive abused ex, Assistant D.A. Al Swanson, soon ban her from when she disobeys instructions and hand to him.
Cast & Characters
Sandra Bullock as Cassie Mayweather / Jessica Marie Hudson;
Ben Chaplin as Sam Kennedy;
Ryan Gosling as Richard Haywood;
Michael Pitt as Justin Pendleton;
Agnes Bruckner as Lisa Mills;
Chris Penn as Ray Feathers;
R.D. Call as Captain Rod Cody;
Tom Verica as Asst. D.A. Al Swanson;
Janni Brenn as Ms. Elder;
John Vickery as Restaurant Manager;
Michael Canavan as Mr. Chechi;
Krista Carpenter as Olivia Lake, the Victim;
Neal Matarazzo as Male Officer in Flashback;
Adilah Barnes as Lab Technician;
Jim Jansen as Lawyer