DVD 121 mins IMDB 5.6

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#103

Drama, Thriller, Crime, Mystery

Josh Hartnett	Ofcr. Dwight Bleichert
Aaron Eckhart	Sgt. Leland Blanchard
Scarlett Johansson	Kay Lake
Hilary Swank	Madeleine Linscott
Mia Kirshner	Elizabeth Short
Mike Starr	Russ Millard
Fiona Shaw	Ramona Linscott
Rachel Miner	Martha Linscott
Victor McGuire	Bill Koenig
Troy Evans	Chief T. Green
Patrick Fischler	Ellis Loew
James Otis	Dolph Bleichert
John Kavanagh	Emmett Linscott
Brian De Palma
Steve Eastin
Mia Frye
Gregg Henry

Director	Brian De Palma
Producer	Rudy Cohen; Moshe Diamant; Boaz Davidson; Art Linson; Avi Lerner
Writer	Josh Friedman; James Ellroy

Staged in 1940s Los Angeles, two detectives, Bucky Bleichert (Josh Hartnett) and Lee Blanchard (Aaron Eckhart), are enjoying financial and professional success at the police academy. Stumbling upon a decapitated woman along the side of a road, they are faced with the murder mystery, the Black Dahlia. Lee grows highly obsessed with the missing woman, Elizabeth Short (Mia Kirshner), only catching faint glimpses of her in seedy interviews and film footage. His obsession wedges the marriage between himself and lover Kay Lake (Scarlett Johansson). Kay attaches herself to Bucky out of fear and confusion as secrets begin to unfold all around them. Looted monies, prostitution, explicit pornography, drugs, and crime all around, Bucky must find his way through the twisted tale before he too is consumed by it.