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Name: The Black Dahlia
Released: 2006-9-15
Cast: Josh Hartnett, Scarlett Johansson, Hilary Swank, Aaron Eckhart, Mia Kirshner

The Black Dahlia

R
2h 1m
2006

32%

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Inspired by the Most Notorious Unsolved Murder in California History. From the acclaimed director of Scarface and the author of LA Confidential comes the spellbinding thriller The Black Dahlia. Two ambitious cops, Lee Blanchard (Aaron Eckhart) and Bucky Bleichert (Josh Hartnett), investigate the shocking murder of an aspiring young starlet. With a corpse so mutilated that photos are kept from the public, the case becomes an obsession for the men, and their lives begin to unravel. Blanchard's relationship with his girlfriend Kay (Scarlett Johansson) deteriorates, while Bleichert finds himself drawn to the enigmatic Madeleine (Hilary Swank), a wealthy woman with a dark and twisted connection to the victim.

Director:

Brian De Palma

Producer:

Art Linson, Rudy Cohen, Moshe Diamant, Avi Lerner

Writer:

Josh Friedman

Cast:

Josh Hartnett, Scarlett Johansson, Hilary Swank, Aaron Eckhart, Mia Kirshner, Mike Starr, Fiona Shaw, Patrick Fischler, James Otis, John Kavanagh, Troy Evans, Anthony Russell, Pepe Serna, Angus MacInnis, Rose McGowan

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

32%

Critics Consensus: Though this ambitious noir crime-drama captures the atmosphere of its era, it suffers from subpar performances, a convoluted story, and the inevitable comparisons to other, more successful films of its genre.

Reviews

Film Frenzy

Matt Brunson

Until it derails while heading into its final turn, The Black Dahlia represents Brian De Palma's most assured moviemaking in at least a decade.

De Palma has managed to turn a two-hour movie about a substantial, significant, unusually gruesome real-life mystery into something of a bore.

A lover of not only film noir, but the grandeur and grotesqueness of early Hollywood and Los Angeles, the only thing given to me by the THE BLACK DAHLIA is a black hole of disappointment. I think it's time to revisit the novel.

November 7, 2019

FULL REVIEW

The Dispatch (Lexington, NC)

Mattie Lucas

If Ed Wood ever made a film noir picture, this is what it would look like.

Propped up by De Palma's usual immaculate eye for period detail and feel for genuine suspense, The Black Dahlia still manages to underline De Palma's many lazy and flabby foibles as a director.

November 3, 2018

FULL REVIEW