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The Million Dollar Hotel

  • 2000
  • R
  • 2h 2m
IMDb RATING
5.7/10
22K
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Mel Gibson, Milla Jovovich, and Jeremy Davies in The Million Dollar Hotel (2000)
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Tragi-comic, romantic whodunnit set in a run down hotel which plays host to mentally ill people too poor to afford medical insurance.Tragi-comic, romantic whodunnit set in a run down hotel which plays host to mentally ill people too poor to afford medical insurance.Tragi-comic, romantic whodunnit set in a run down hotel which plays host to mentally ill people too poor to afford medical insurance.

  • Director
    • Wim Wenders
  • Writers
    • Nicholas Klein
    • Bono
  • Stars
    • Jeremy Davies
    • Milla Jovovich
    • Mel Gibson
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  • IMDb RATING
    5.7/10
    22K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Wim Wenders
    • Writers
      • Nicholas Klein
      • Bono
    • Stars
      • Jeremy Davies
      • Milla Jovovich
      • Mel Gibson
    • 188User reviews
    • 59Critic reviews
    • 25Metascore
  • See production, box office & company info
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    • Awards
      • 2 wins & 5 nominations

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    Milla Jovovich and Jeremy Davies in The Million Dollar Hotel (2000)
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    Jeremy Davies
    Jeremy Davies
    • Tom Tom
    Milla Jovovich
    Milla Jovovich
    • Eloise
    Mel Gibson
    Mel Gibson
    • Skinner
    Jimmy Smits
    Jimmy Smits
    • Geronimo
    Peter Stormare
    Peter Stormare
    • Dixie
    Amanda Plummer
    Amanda Plummer
    • Vivien
    Gloria Stuart
    Gloria Stuart
    • Jessica
    Tom Bower
    Tom Bower
    • Hector
    Donal Logue
    Donal Logue
    • Charley Best
    Bud Cort
    Bud Cort
    • Shorty
    Julian Sands
    Julian Sands
    • Terence Scopey
    Conrad Roberts
    Conrad Roberts
    • Stix
    Harris Yulin
    Harris Yulin
    • Stanley Goldkiss
    Charlayne Woodard
    Charlayne Woodard
    • Jean Swift
    Ellen Cleghorne
    Ellen Cleghorne
    • Marlene
    Richard Edson
    Richard Edson
    • Joe
    Tito Larriva
    Tito Larriva
    • Jesu
    Jon Hassell
    • Hollow
    • Director
      • Wim Wenders
    • Writers
      • Nicholas Klein
      • Bono
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    • Trivia
      Mel Gibson was so ashamed of the film that he fought to prevent it from being released to theaters in the U.S.
    • Goofs
      The positions of the pool balls change during the voting scene.
    • Quotes

      Tom Tom: The heart is a sleeping beauty and love the only kiss it can't resist. Even if its eyes lay open wide, there is a heart that sleeps inside. And it's to there you must be hastening. For all hearts dream, they dream only of awakening.

    • Connections
      Edited into U2: The Ground Beneath Her Feet (2000)
    • Soundtracks
      The First Time
      Written and Performed by U2

    User reviews188

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    . . . suicide at the best moment of your life . . .
    Million Dollar Hotel is a beautiful movie, and one of Wenders' best recent efforts, considerably better than The End of Violence or Lisbon Story, but with a smaller worldview than Until the End of the World or Wings of Desire. The State of Things is also one of my favorite Wenders.

    I can understand how many people might not like this movie. It's a young person's story about suicide and first love at the very moment when you know it's the best moment in your life as it ever will be, before you get jaded and caught up with the familiar chase after sex, money and power, when your sensations become dulled and your body not as agile because now you're older. It is concerned with poetically defective mentalities and has a drug-like sensibility to it, so you may not get it if you're a normal social conformist with a happy childhood. But then, I had this kind of youth, too, living in drug-addled international student hostel dives around Greenwich Village in the Eighties, purposefully unemployed because it seemed more open to possibility and potentiality than the unphilosophic nine to five. Suicide can really be a statement of momentary happiness rather than the mundane postmortem understanding of a troubled youth, the movie seems to say.

    Jeremy Davies gives a fantastic, inspired performance, reminding me a bit of Leonardo DiCaprio in What's Eating Gilbert Grape, but much more nuanced as to require second viewings, or Johnny Depp in Benny and Joon. Admittedly, the story is not completely credible, because while the Million Dollar Hotel seems real enough (think Chelsea Hotel if it were in downtown LA), how all these misfitting characters can survive financially and end up living together in this amazing place cannot be scrupulously pondered. At the same time, it's good that Bono helped write the story, because Wenders' plots tend to be otherwise somewhat inchoate. So in the end, it's an atmospheric fantasy. (Why do so many movies of the late Nineties-early Thousands have people jumping off of roofs? : Open Your Eyes) Nor is all the acting uniform, although Davies especially, Jovavich and notably Stormare stand out. Although Gibson is focused big on the center of the video box, it's really not his movie, as he's just along for the chance to ride with Wenders. The dialogue mixed in with the Beatles lyrics is quite clever. The camera effects for those moments where Tom-Tom and Eloise seem to move in slow motion for several parts of a second are neat, as if the two of them are not completely in the same dimension of our reality and are in danger of somehow being shaken loose from this world. I can't believe this movie was never widely released, as I just found it on the shelf in the video store, don't know how I ever missed it, and I agree that it is destined to be a Wenders cult favorite.
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    • Release date
      • February 10, 2000 (Germany)
    • Countries of origin
      • Germany
      • United Kingdom
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • The Billion Dollar Hotel
    • Filming locations
      • Rosslyn Hotel - 112 W. 5th Street, Los Angeles, California, USA
    • Production companies
      • Icon Entertainment International
      • Kintop Pictures
      • Road Movies Filmproduktion
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    • Budget
      • $8,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $59,989
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $29,483
      • Feb 4, 2001
    • Gross worldwide
      • $105,983
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      2 hours 2 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
      • SDDS
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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