Crimetime
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{{Infobox film
| name = Crimetime
| image = Crimetime.jpg
| caption =
| director = George Sluizer
| producer = George Sluizer
David Pupkewitz
Phil Alberstat
Barry Barnholtz
Marc Vlessing
| writer = Brendan Somers
| narrator =
| starring = Stephen Baldwin
Pete Postlethwaite
Sadie Frost
Geraldine Chaplin
Karen Black
Rory Campbell-Wheeler
| music = David A. Stewart
| cinematography = Jules van den Steenhoven
| editing = Fabienne Fawley
| distributor = First Independent Films
| released = {{Film date|1996|08| |U.S.|1996|11|29|UK|df=y}}
| runtime = 118 minutes
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| budget = £4.3 millionAlexander Walker, Icons in the Fire: The Rise and Fall of Practically Everyone in the British Film Industry 1984-2000, Orion Books, 2005 p269
($6 million){{cite magazine |last=Jones|first=Alan|date=February 1997 |title= Crimetime|url=https://archive.org/details/cinefantastique_1970-2002/Cinefantastique%20Vol%2028%20No%208%20%28Feb%201997%29/page/n13/mode/1up?view=theater|url-status= |magazine=Cinefantastique|publisher= Fourth Castle Micromedia|access-date=9 January 2023}}
| gross =
}}
Crimetime is a 1996 British thriller film starring Stephen Baldwin, Pete Postlethwaite, Sadie Frost and directed by George Sluizer.
Plot
Crimetime is set in the future where the media is nearly omnipotent. When an unemployed actor named Bobby (Stephen Baldwin) is hired to play a serial killer on a crime reenactment television series he desires to understand the killer's motivations and begins researching the crimes getting police officers to describe the grisly details of recent murders. Bobby becomes an expert and a star, which delights the real culprit and inspires him to go on to even more lurid, headline-grabbing crimes.
Reception
Crimetime was released to negative critical reaction mainly noting the confusion of the plot.{{cite web |url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/crimetime/ |title= Crimetime Movie Reviews|access-date=2008-10-24 |publisher=Rotten Tomatoes }} Shlomo Schwartzberg of Boxoffice magazine stated "Crime Time makes little sense at its best of times. At its worst, it's unwatchable."{{cite web |url=http://boxoffice.com/reviews/2008/08/crime-time.php |title=Movie Reviews > Crimetime |access-date=2008-10-24 |publisher=Box Office (magazine) Boxoffice |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100205160235/http://boxoffice.com/reviews/2008/08/crime-time.php |archive-date=5 February 2010 }} Channel 4 in their review noted that in spite of "a decent cast and the odd stylistic flourish, this psychodrama is dragged down by histrionic plotting, clunky talk and general sense of confusion over what it wants to be."{{cite web |url=http://www.channel4.com/film/reviews/film.jsp?id=102406§ion=review&page=2#reviewnav |title= Crimetime Moviereview 1996|access-date=2008-10-24 |publisher=Channel 4 }}
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External links
- {{IMDb title|id=0115976|title=Crimetime}}
- {{rotten-tomatoes|id=crimetime|title=Crimetime}}
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Category:1996 psychological thriller films
Category:British neo-noir films
Category:British satirical films
Category:Films directed by George Sluizer
Category:Films set in the future
Category:Trimark Pictures films
Category:1990s English-language films
Category:English-language thriller films
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