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Overview

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Director:
Writers (WGA):
George Dawes Green (novel)
George Dawes Green (screenplay)
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Release Date:
20 September 2001 (Malaysia) more
Tagline:
Romulus Ledbetter lives on the edge. The view is incredible.
Plot:
A cave-dwelling man sets out to track down the killer of a homeless boy and bring him to justice. full summary | add synopsis
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1 nomination more
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The Extra Man Finds a Cast
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Two movies equal half of One more (57 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Samuel L. Jackson ... Romulus

Colm Feore ... Leppenraub

Ann Magnuson ... Moira
Damir Andrei ... Arnold

Aunjanue Ellis ... Lulu

Tamara Tunie ... Sheila
Peter MacNeill ... Cork

Jay Rodan ... Joey / No Face

Rodney Eastman ... Matthew

Anthony Michael Hall ... Bob
Kate McNeil ... Betty
Leonard L. Thomas ... Shaker / Greater No Face (as Leonard Thomas)

Joris Jarsky ... Boy Toy / Andy (as Joris Jorsky)
Pierre Alcide ... Toupee
Richard Fitzpatrick ... Walter
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Sign of the Killer (UK) (video title)
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MPAA:
Rated R for language, some violence and sexuality.
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105 min
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Choreographer Otis Sallid originally tried professional dancers to play the moth-seraphs, but decided to switch to athletes instead, saying they had "the bodies, the mentality and the strength". more
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Continuity: When Sheila wakes Romulus to tell him he's being misled, Moira turns and pulls the bedclothes up enough to show that she's wearing blue-checkered shorts. A short while later, when Romulus is getting out of bed, Moira is obviously naked. more
Quotes:
Moira Leppenraub: [after Romulus shows up bruised and bloody] What happened to you?
Romulus Ledbetter: Your brother's hit men tried to run me over.
Moira Leppenraub: [laughs] Photographers do not have hit men, Romulus.
Romulus Ledbetter: Yeah? Well, you tell that to No-Face with the gun.
Moira Leppenraub: You're psychotic, aren't you?
Romulus Ledbetter: I... I have brain typhoons.
Moira Leppenraub: Brain typhoons?
Romulus Ledbetter: Swarms of moth-seraphs howl in my skull. Lies vex them.
Moira Leppenraub: Then you'll understand if I don't invite you in.
Romulus Ledbetter: Mm-hmm.
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Regnava nel Silenzio from Lucia di Lammermoor more

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4 out of 5 people found the following comment useful.
Two movies equal half of One, 15 April 2002
Author: The Ebullient One from Terra

I think this movie made the same mistake that Mel Gibson's "Conspiracy Theory" did. We have a mentally unstable character who inhabits his own private world, and a good enough movie could have been made simply out of that and our hero's adventures. But instead a very conventional movie plot is tacked one which practically destroys it. In "Conspiracy Theory" it was an action movie, while in "Caveman's Valentine" it's a murder mystery. The delusional world we see only tantalizing glimpses of has some familiar elements, such as an arch nemesis that can control minds by energy rays, but also some unique variations such as the moth people or the building the "bad guy" lives in. However it's only bits, not something complete. Maybe I must have missed the part where it was explained, or how the Caveman fell from being a Julliard trained musician to a homeless person.

Samuel L. Jackson can carry the character as he usually does, making the caveman seem a kooky old codger one moment and a rampaging psychopath the next, but he can't bridge the gaps in character the script calls for. Whenever the murder mystery needs to be advanced or some plot point developed he becomes a little too lucid and rational, than on cue goes back to crazy. Overall "Caveman's Valentine" is an unhappy marriage of a made for TV level murder mystery and fragments of an insane man's existence, with too little of each good enough to make it work.

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