Author: Al Pacino

Brand: Warner Home Video

Features:

• DVD, Widescreen

Format: Anamorphic

Release Date: 15-10-2002

Details: Though having three Academy Award winners in a cast doesn't guarantee that a movie will be something special, Al Pacino, Robin Williams, and Hilary Swank do indeed work well together in this Hitchcockian thriller set in tiny Nightmute, Alaska. Director Christopher Nolan (Memento) deserves much of the credit as he turns a twisted, if somewhat predictable plot and occasionally clunky dialogue into a claustrophobic, noirish thrill ride to the edge of insanity. Pacino is suitably cast as detective Will Dormer, an L.A. cop sent with his partner to Nightmute (where the sun never sets) to help solve the murder of a teenage girl. Swank plays young, impressionable local officer Ellie Burr, who's idolized Dormer since she studied his work in law-enforcement school. Williams, in a surprisingly modest role, turns up as quiet local mystery novelist Walter Finch, who finds he and Pacino have much in common. More of a psychological thriller than a whodunit, Insomnia successfully weaves several intriguing plotlines into one teetering-on-the-edge-of-madness conclusion that's both disarming and inevitable. --Adem Tepedelen

UPC: 085392330720

EAN: 0085392330720

Languages: English

Binding: DVD

Item Note: Zone 1 / NTSC

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood