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Name: Zero Effect
Released: 1998-1-30
Cast: Bill Pullman, Ben Stiller, Kim Dickens, Angela Featherstone, Ryan O'Neal

Zero Effect

R
1h 55m
1998

66%

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The world's most ingenious, but socially inept, private investigator tackles his toughest assignment yet--falling in love--in the comic murder mystery Zero Effect. With his unparalleled intuition, Daryl Zero (Bill Pullman) can solve most of his high-profile cases without leaving the house. In fact, Daryl can't leave the house. Masterfully cunning, but emotionally damaged, Zero must conduct all his business through Steve Arlo (Ben Stiller), a loyal assistant and legal advisor. But when lumber tycoon Gregory Stark (Ryan O'Neal) hires Zero to crack a bizarre case, the dysfunctional detective confronts his most intimate fears as he finds himself falling in love with the beautiful and mysterious prime suspect. Now faced with the biggest challenge of his storied career, will the master sleuth solve his most difficult assignment without falling prey to the Zero Effect?

Director:

Jake Kasdan

Producer:

Lisa Henson, Janet Yang, Jake Kasdan, Jim Behnke

Writer:

Jake Kasdan

Cast:

Bill Pullman, Ben Stiller, Kim Dickens, Angela Featherstone, Ryan O'Neal, Hugh Ross

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

66%

Critics Consensus: A promising debut for writer/director Jake Kasdan, Zero Effect overcomes its flaws with its off-kilter humor and likeable leads.

Reviews

Financial Times

Martin Hoyle

Polished, ironic, enjoyable and hugely promising.

The film's eccentricities are badly controlled; and they oddly sit with the tired thriller conventions that are visible elsewhere. Once he loosens up, Kasdan might create something less artificial.

If you are looking for something on a smaller scale and more cerebral, you could do a lot worse than Zero Effect.

June 21, 2023

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Independent on Sunday

Matthew Sweet

It's Kasdan who should really take the credit: his script is witty, and his handling of detective conventions is easy and unmannered. Remember his name.

As a film, Zero Effect shows Kasdan's promise as a filmmaker.

January 31, 2023

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