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
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| Jeremy Davies | ... | Tom Tom | |
| Milla Jovovich | ... | Eloise | |
| Mel Gibson | ... | Detective Skinner | |
| Jimmy Smits | ... | Geronimo | |
| Peter Stormare | ... | Dixie | |
| Amanda Plummer | ... | Vivien | |
| Gloria Stuart | ... | Jessica | |
| Tom Bower | ... | Hector | |
| Donal Logue | ... | Charley Best | |
| Bud Cort | ... | Shorty | |
| Julian Sands | ... | Terence Scopey | |
| Conrad Roberts | ... | Stix | |
| Harris Yulin | ... | Stanley Goldkiss | |
| Charlayne Woodard | ... | Jean Swift | |
| Ellen Cleghorne | ... | Marlene | |
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The Million Dollar Hotel follows the supposed murder of Izzy Goldkiss. FBI Agent Skinner is sent into investigate the crime, and to weed out the killer. When he reaches the 'hotel', he comes across many of the forgotten types of people living in the city. You have Geronimo, who is a self proclaimed Native American artist. Dixie, played with great gusto by Peter Stormare, as the 'fifth' Beatle still waiting for his royalty payments as well as recognition. Eloise, who is the neighborhood 'whore'. And then there is Tom-Tom, played by Jeremy Davies. He's the center of the story, being that he's the 'village idiot' of the bunch, and has the trust of everyone in the Hotel. Agent Skinner has a few days to find out who the killer is, while the residents of the hotel devise a scheme to sell off Izzy's fabled 'Tar Paintings'. Written by RoboDan
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EnglishRelease Date:
10 February 2000 (Germany) See more »Also Known As:
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Budget:
$8,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend USA:
$29,483, 4 February 2001, Limited ReleaseGross USA:
$52,526, 11 February 2001Company Credits
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Tom Tom: Wow, after I jumped it occurred to me, life is perfect, life is the best. It's full of magic, beauty, opportunity, and television, and surprises, lots of surprises, yeah. And then there's that stuff that everybody longs for, but they only real feel when it's gone. All that just kinda hit me. I guess you don't really see it all clearly when you're - ya know - alive.
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Written by Hal Willner, Adam Dorn and Martin Brumbach
Performed by Hal Willner
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The book that Eloise carries around early in the movie is "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel García Márquez. See more »Goofs
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[first lines]Tom Tom: Wow, after I jumped it occurred to me, life is perfect, life is the best. It's full of magic, beauty, opportunity, and television, and surprises, lots of surprises, yeah. And then there's that stuff that everybody longs for, but they only real feel when it's gone. All that just kinda hit me. I guess you don't really see it all clearly when you're - ya know - alive.
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Subject: Million Dollar Hotel (2000)
A lovely, lyrical, magical film about many ideas, not the least of which is the strength of the weak. The plot revolves around several "loonies" in a hotel for those with no where else to go. Billed as a murder mystery, I suppose it is that, too. Barely. I had no interest in who the killer was. Just wanted these people's lives to unfold before me forever. Mel Gibson does a very interesting and funny parody of his cop persona; the actor who plays Tom Tom is terrific as a presumably dim-witted gopher to the various inhabitants (he calls himself "the beggar's butler"),Milla Jovovich is a leading lady of sorts, a constant smoker and reader who describes herself as fictional; and, Jimmy Smits as Geronimo, a Latino Indian-chief wannabe, an artist in hiding and up-front scam artist. I'm not a film reviewer, and I have always been partial to Wenders' films. That being said, I'm going downstairs now to watch the film again. P.S. Bono! Who knew?