A film noir buff has his life turned on end by a femme fatale with a big adventure in mind.
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Cillian Murphy | ... | Neil | |
| Lucy Liu | ... | Violet | |
| Jason Sudeikis | ... | Jonathan | |
| Michael Panes | ... | Lucien | |
| Callie Thorne | ... | Marcia | |
| Michael Yurchak | ... | Buddy | |
| Heather Burns | ... | Denise | |
| Mark Harelik | ... | Detective Barloe | |
| Ali Reza | ... | Detective Lowenstein | |
| Josh Pais | ... | Andy | |
| Brett Gelman | ... | Glenn | |
| Lonny Ross | ... | Eager Customer | |
| Paul Scheer | ... | Annoying Customer | |
| Richard Waddingham | ... | Dennis - Bald Giant | |
| J. T. O'Connor | ... | Bald Creep | |
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Neil, a self proclaimed film geek and owner of Gumshoe video, has always been content to live vicariously through his favorite films noir. But when he meets Violet, a real-life femme fatale, his mundane world gets turned upside down and the line between reality and the movies quickly begins to blur. Will Neil step up and embrace a life full of adventure or retreat back to his comfortable couch? Written by Anonymous
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11 September 2008 (Russia) See more »Also Known As:
Liebe lieber ungewöhnlich - Eine Beziehung mit Hindernissen See more »Edit
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While it did premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2007, the film was unable to secure distribution for a theater release and so went straight to DVD. See more »Goofs
When Violet interrupts Neil's bath and he is supposed to be naked, he is wearing some kind of cloth to cover his masculine parts. See more »Quotes
Violet: [Entering Neil's video store, talking to someone on her headset phone] No, I don't mind. I'm in the video store right now... No, it's one of those little shitty ones.See more »
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The only reason I gave it a 6/10 is because Cillian Murphy is always a good performer.He is the only one to watch in this movie. But for an actor of his range, it is still disappointing. I thought that it could be a different type of romantic comedy,- it started interestingly enough- but after you got the point of this girl (Lucy Liu) being "nuts", it is going nowhere. I smiled, maybe, once.The rest of the time I just waited for something to happen. Lucy Liu is not charming enough in this kind of pranks, because she is not a teenager, or sweet, and she is not convincing. I really like her, but she was better in action movies, or playing a more serious character. I didn't find a great chemistry between them. I think that the director and the stars tried to make it work because a story about this weird guy who lives a boring life unlike in the movies he watches (big surprise here...), falling for this 'border-line con'/ grasshopper,- sounded like an appealing and funny idea of a movie - but it didn't work. not for me, anyway.I also have a feeling that this kind of plot was done before, and it worked better.