In the beginning there was murder
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German title | In the beginning there was murder |
Original title | Stranger Than Fiction |
Country of production | United States |
original language | English |
Publishing year | 2000 |
length | 96 minutes |
Age rating | FSK 16 |
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Director | Eric Bross |
script | Tim Garrick , Scott Russell |
production | Ram Bergman , Dana Lustig , Deborah Thompson Duda |
music | Larry Seymour |
camera | Horacio Marquínez |
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In the beginning was a murder (original title: Stranger Than Fiction ) is a crime film by director Eric Bross from the year 2000.
action
At the airport, author Donovan Miller tells a stranger the story of his bestseller:
Jared comes to his friend Austin one evening, bloodied and with a dislocated arm, and tells him that he killed a man in his apartment in self-defense. Instead of telling the police, they decide together with their friends Emma and Violet to have the body disappear. After their car with the dead person in the trunk is towed away, Jared also kills the towing contractor Bubba, who wants to blackmail the four over the corpse. They finally manage to make both bodies disappear, and shortly afterwards, Mrs. Steiner, the only witness to the removal of traces, dies. But Violet cannot live with this burden and is found hanged in her apartment by her friends. After they have forged their suicide note, they part ways at first.
Some time later, Austin and Jared meet by chance in Emma's apartment and discover that they are both having a relationship with her. After Austin leaves, the whole truth comes to light: It was Emma who killed the man, a drug enforcement officer, in Jared's apartment because he was blackmailing her with a video of her drug offenses. She had persuaded Jared to portray it as his act so that Austin and Violet would help clean up the body and tracks. She had also planned with the tow company Bubba to blackmail the wealthy Violet with the body in the trunk, which Jared unwittingly thwarted by killing Bubba.
When Jared does not respond to Emma's request for reconciliation, she kills him from behind with a frying pan and sets a fire to cover up the traces. But Austin hadn't actually left, watching everything from the window. He removes the "Out of Service" sign from the elevator so that Emma suffocates in it, trying to escape from the burning building.
In the final scene it emerges that the author Donovan Miller is Austin Walker and that the stranger to whom he told the story and gave a signed copy of his book is a criminal investigator.
After the credits, Violet is seen sitting in a car alive.
criticism
film-dienst 8/2000: A deliberately “cool” thriller that only meets modest demands, as the characters do not arouse the audience's sympathy. Only the opening credits arouse interest, which quickly fades after the start of the film.
Web links
- Initially, a murder was in the Internet Movie Database (English)