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      Where's Marlowe?

      R Released Oct 1, 1998 1 hr. 39 min. Comedy List
      17% 12 Reviews Tomatometer 56% 500+ Ratings Audience Score Film-school grads (Mos Def, John Livingston) try to make a documentary about modern private detectives, one (Miguel Ferrer) of whom has awful cases. Read More Read Less Watch on Fandango at Home Premiered Nov 01 Buy Now

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      Audience Member one of the most under rated films out there. A hidden gem, a classic film on the genre and the process, one of my faves, i love these kind of films, people usually don't because most people are retards and zombies and suck ass and don't know whats good, usually the people in the middle that are sheep, you suck you have ruined tv and all the greatest tv shows have been cancelled because your all too stupid to understand them, and love the crap, because your crap, thanks for nothing losers Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/26/23 Full Review Audience Member Combines many of favorite things: faux documentaries, hard-boiled crime and detective stories, subtle dark comedy, and the under-rated acting talents of Mos Def and Miguel Ferrer. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/09/23 Full Review Mike M Very much a product of the postmodern 1990s, with a minor role for John Hawkes as a nerdy, Tarantino-like camera-store know-it-all, a monologue hymning Welles's use of lenses in "Citizen Kane", and a couple too many clever-clever, deconstructive pullbacks to the editing suite that, in the early stages at least, threaten to halt both momentum and the prevailing breezy, good-natured mood. Still, Pyne - a screenwriter of some repute ("The Hard Way", the "Manchurian Candidate" redo) - has fun shuffling Boone's various cases, and obliging the characters to either play up to, or shy away from, the camera in a fashion that foresees the docusoaps and reality television of the decade that followed... it shambles amiably and affectionately towards the conclusion the camera can only ever get in the way of real and lasting human connections. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 09/15/10 Full Review Audience Member I'm surprised more people haven't seen or reviewed this. It's an excellent movie and I'm surprised at the rating. It was really brilliant. I loved it. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Audience Member Why do i like this movie so much? Mos Def is in it!!! You might have to watch this movie like 5x's before you get it. It's a movie within a movie. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/12/23 Full Review Audience Member An okay mockumentary. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/20/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly Rated: C- Sep 7, 2011 Full Review Entertainment Weekly Vacant yet convoluted. Jan 1, 2000 Full Review Lou Lumenick New York Post Where's Marlowe? was expanded from a TV pilot produced for ABC. Small wonder it never found its way on the air. Rated: 0.5/4 Jan 1, 2000 Full Review Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Rated: 2/5 Jul 28, 2005 Full Review Michael Dequina TheMovieReport.com For all the cleverness in its premise, director-co-scripter Daniel Pyne doesn't mine it for all of its potential. Rated: 2/4 Dec 5, 2004 Full Review Andy Klein Los Angeles CityBeat Rated: 5/5 Sep 2, 2004 Full Review Read all reviews

      Movie Info

      Synopsis Film-school grads (Mos Def, John Livingston) try to make a documentary about modern private detectives, one (Miguel Ferrer) of whom has awful cases.
      Director
      Daniel Pyne
      Executive Producer
      Aaron Lipstadt, John Mankiewicz, Daniel Pyne
      Screenwriter
      John Mankiewicz, Daniel Pyne
      Distributor
      Paramount Pictures
      Production Co
      Sandblast, Weiten
      Rating
      R
      Genre
      Comedy
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Oct 1, 1998, Original
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Jun 15, 2011
      Box Office (Gross USA)
      $6.0K
      Sound Mix
      Surround, Stereo
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