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Synopsis
When a San Francisco homicide detective with a keen eye for criminal profiling is fired for botching the arrest of a notorious serial killer, his subsequent effort to reinvent himself as an insurance claims case-investigator leads him to study a series of perplexing wrongful deaths in this comedy starring Joseph Fiennes, Winona Ryder, Tim Blake Nelson, and Wilmer Valderrama. Michael Burrows (Fiennes) isn't your typical detective. Though Detective Burrows is a paranoid obsessive-compulsive who faints at the sight of blood, his remarkable insight into the criminal mindset has nevertheless made him a valuable asset to the San Francisco Police Department. When Detective Burrows' idiosyncrasies allow the feared "North Beach Killer" to elude capture, however, he is fired by his superiors. Upon offering his unique skills to a doubting insurance company, Burrows is given 30 days in which to prove he can sort out the legitimate claims from the false ones. Now, as Burrows makes for the Midwest in the company of hard-nosed field agent Siri Tyler (Ryder), the film student (Valderrama) who has been following the former detective for his thesis follows the pair as they investigate a series of forehead-slapping deaths, including that of a powerful executive who attempts to prove that his high-rise window is unbreakable and a pair of English tourists who fatally misinterpret the "cruise control" function on their rented RV. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide


Production Crew

Don Day Art Director
Hiro Narita Cinematographer
Andy Mayson Co-Executive Producer
Peter Naish Co-Executive Producer
Debbie Brubaker Co-producer
Frank Capra III Co-producer
David Kitay Composer (Music Score)
Amy Brownson Costume Designer
Finn Taylor Director
Rick LeCompte Editor
Charles Hsiao Executive Producer
Laurie A. Miller Executive Producer
Steven Siebert Executive Producer
Frank Capra III First Assistant Director
Frank Eulner First Assistant Director
Charles Raggio Musical Direction/Supervision
Jane Sindell Producer
Jason Blum Producer
Johnny Wow Producer
Peter Jamison Production Designer
Finn Taylor Screenwriter
Dick Ziker Second Unit Director
Joseph Middleton Second Unit Director
Elizabeth Covell Set Decorator
Christopher Boyes Sound/Sound Designer
Marjolaine Tremblay-Silva Visual Effects Supervisor
Year: 2006
Runtime: 94
Country: USA
MPAA Rating: R
for for language, violent images, some sexuality and drug use
Category: Feature

Genre
Comedy

Produced by
Blumhouse
Darwin Awards Productions
Icon Entertainment Intl.
Tavstock Films
Wow Films

Release
September 07, 2007 (USA - Limited)
by Bauer Martinez Studios
MGM