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RUNTIME
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Tight 9-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
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Midnight City
2026 0h 9m EN
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Synopsis
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Dutch Lazarus is a detective who specializes in strange cases. When a new client walks into his office and stymies him at every turn, we begin to wonder what her game is, and if Dutch already knows a lot more more than she's telling.
“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”
Cast
Yuri Lowenthal
Dutch
Tara Platt
Sadie
Credits
Behind the camera
- Director
- Bill Watterson
- Writers
- Yuri Lowenthal
- Languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
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Cinephile deep dive
The take
Bill Watterson directs. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.
Trivia
Things worth knowing
- 1Tight 9-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
- 2Shot for just $0.0M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.
- 3Released this year — you're seeing it while it's still in the cultural conversation.
- 4Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
- 5Yuri Lowenthal and Tara Platt carry the top of the cast.
- 6IMDB entry: tt39311557 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
The technical file
- Runtime
- 9 min · 0h 9m
- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $12,000
- Original language
- EN
Also by
Bill Watterson
Production companies
Who made it
- MO
Monkey Kingdom Productions
Key crew
- ProducerBrendan Bradley
Release history · US
When it landed
- Premiere2026-06-19· Chattanooga Film Fest
