Crime Fiction

"Some people would kill for a good story."

2007 1h 30m EN

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4.8

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★4.8TMDB · 4

ComedyCrime

Synopsis

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Will you kill for a good story? If you are James Cooper, a 28 year old copy editor with dreams of literary stardom, you will. After all, your girlfriend was just crowned the "voice of a new America" by the New York literati, and you waste your days editing third-rate textbooks in a dreary Chicago basement. Your first book got panned. Your agent just dumped you. You have no future. But when your girlfriend's corpse ends up sprawled beneath your bedroom window, you finally know what to write about. Crime Fiction is the story of murder, betrayal and outrageous artistic fortune.

“Some people would kill for a good story.”

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Cast

Jonathan Eliot
James Cooper
Christian Stolte
Don Lee Boone
Amy Sloan
Hilary
Yasen Peyankov
Komissarzhevsky
Katrina Lenk
Lauren

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Will Slocombe
Writers: Jonathan Eliot

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RUNTIME

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90 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.

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2 / 8

ERA

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Released 19 years ago.

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3 / 8

RUNTIME

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Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.

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4 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Will Slocombe, shot by Kirsten Johnson. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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5 / 8

CAST

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Jonathan Eliot and Christian Stolte and Amy Sloan carry the top of the cast.

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6 / 8

FACT

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Marketing tagline: "Some people would kill for a good story.".

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7 / 8

WILD

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IMDB entry: tt0481497 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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8 / 8

WILD

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Only 4 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

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The take

Will Slocombe directs. Kirsten Johnson behind the camera. Runs lean at under 100 minutes.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

190 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.
2Released 19 years ago.
3Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
4Directed by Will Slocombe, shot by Kirsten Johnson. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
5Jonathan Eliot and Christian Stolte and Amy Sloan carry the top of the cast.
6Marketing tagline: "Some people would kill for a good story.".
7IMDB entry: tt0481497 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
8Only 4 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.