Domino (2005)

A recounting of Domino Harvey's life story. The daughter of actor Laurence Harvey turned away from her career as a Ford model to become a bounty hunter.

Director:

Tony Scott

Writers:

Richard Kelly (screenplay), Richard Kelly (story)

Stars:

Keira Knightley, Mickey Rourke, Edgar Ramírez

2 wins.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Keira Knightley	...	Domino Harvey
Mickey Rourke	...	Ed Moseby
Edgar Ramírez	...	Choco (as Edgar Ramirez)
Delroy Lindo	...	Claremont Williams
Mo'Nique	...	Lateesha Rodriguez
Mena Suvari	...	Kimmie
Macy Gray	...	Lashandra Davis
Jacqueline Bisset	...	Sophie Wynn
Dabney Coleman	...	Drake Bishop
Brian Austin Green	...	Brian Austin Green
Ian Ziering	...	Ian Ziering
Stanley Kamel	...	Anthony Cigliutti
Peter Jacobson	...	Burke Beckett
T.K. Carter	...	Lester Kincaid
Kel O'Neill	...	Frances

Storyline

The daughter of an actor father and a social-climber mother, Domino Harvey, bored with her life, decides to join the team of Ed Moseby and becomes a bounty hunter. But she gets in trouble when the Mafia's money is stolen from an armored truck, while Moseby and his crew are participating in a reality show produced by Mark Heiss. The situation gets out of control when the sons of a rival mobster are kidnapped while the FBI is monitoring two gangs of mobsters.

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Plot Keywords:

female bounty hunter | female nudity | bounty hunter | model | action heroine | 

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Taglines:

Based on a true story - sort of...

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Genres:

Action | Biography | Crime | Drama | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for strong violence, pervasive language, sexual content/nudity and drug use

Did You Know?

Trivia

Tony Scott met Domino ten years previously to make a movie of her life but only nailed the script when Richard Kelly came on board in 2002, creating the whole DMV plot to tie everything together.

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Goofs

When Domino tells her mother she loves her in the pool, she removes her goggles completely, but in the next shot they are on her head.

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Quotes

Howie Stein: Now, if 2 Live Crew has taught us anything, it's that horniness in today's society is out of control. And at one point within the next decade, mark my words, ladies and gentlemen, society will have reached something I call APATT..."All porno, all the time." Pornography will have become an epidemic in this country. Phase one... masturbation.

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Crazy Credits

The credits for the principal cast are shown by first name only in the closing credits, ending with the real Domino Harvey, followed by an "In Loving Memory" title card for Domino.

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Connections

Featured in The Tonight Show with Jay Leno: Episode #21.36 (2012)

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Soundtracks

San Berdoo Sunburn
Written by Jesse Hughes (as J. Everett Hughes) and Josh Homme (as Josh Homme)
Performed by Eagles of Death Metal
Courtesy of Rekord Records

User Reviews

An enjoyable mess

I liked 'Domino' even though the movie felt like a total mess. Describing the plot would be as much help to you as saying there was a beginning and an end, so I might as well just do that. I could tell you that Domino Harvey (Keire Knightley), once a model, has turned into a bounty hunter under the leadership of Ed Mosbey (Mickey Rourke). Also part of their team is Choco (Edgar Ramirez), who looks like a Latino version of Val Kilmer. The movie also involves mafia, stolen money, a man with an arm detached from his body, Ian Ziering and Brian Austin Green from 'Beverly Hills 90210' as themselves, sisters named Lashandra and Lashindra, and a Jerry Springer-sequence that could have been a comedy short on its own.

I liked all of it for multiple reasons, its energy being one of them. The movie feels like one long music video, even more than films like 'Trainspotting', 'Go' and 'The Rules of Attraction' (funny how they all deal with drugs in one way or another), but it never becomes exhausting. It is one of those films where style over substance succeeds, maybe not in great way, but simply in a way. I also liked it for the actors. Keira Knightley is convincing as a tough girl, even more admirable after just seeing her as a naughty but delicate girl in 'Pride & Prejudice'. Mickey Rourke is back with extraordinary performance in films such as 'Spun', 'Once Upon a Time in Mexico', 'Sin City', and now 'Domino'. Not only them, but also Ramirez, Delroy Lindo, Tom Waits and especially Christopher Walken (as the producer of a reality show the team is doing) give the movie something extra to enjoy. It is exactly what this movie is, enjoyable.

Details

Country:

France USA UK

Language:

English

Release Date:

14 October 2005 (USA)

Also Known As:

Domino

Filming Locations:

Alexandria Hotel - 501 S. Spring Street, Downtown, Los Angeles, California, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$50,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$4,675,000, 16 October 2005

Gross USA:

$10,169,202

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$22,984,628

Company Credits

Production Co:

New Line Cinema, Scott Free Productions, Davis-Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

127 min

Sound Mix:

DTS Dolby Digital SDDS

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1