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Where's Marlowe?
Paramount Classics

Where's Marlowe? reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 47 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
10.0 out of 10
based on 11 reviews
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MPAA RATING: R for language and a scene of sexuality

Starring Dante Beze, Bok Hun Chon, Allison Dean, and Miguel Ferrer

Experience the extraordinary true story of the documentary that's a mockumentary that became a real life mystery...of passion...of murder...and things that can only happen in the movies. (Paramount Classics)


GENRE(S): Comedy  
WRITTEN BY: John Mankiewicz
Daniel Pyne
 
DIRECTED BY: Daniel Pyne  
RELEASE DATE: DVD: July 18, 2000 
Video: July 18, 2000 
Theatrical: November 12, 1999 
RUNNING TIME: 90 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: USA 

What The Critics Said

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70
TV Guide Ken Fox
This smart spoof of film noir and filmmaking is very clever and riotously funny.
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63
Miami Herald Phoebe Flowers
Melding multiple genres, the movie is certainly funny, but the admirable, reckless energy that makes it worthwhile for much of the running time eventually peters out.
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63
New York Daily News Jami Bernard
Belongs to an intellectually stimulating subgenre that examines the thin line between documentary maker and subject.
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58
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Paula Nechak
Attempts to do for "The Big Sleep"-type detective movie and film-noir genre what "Blair Witch" did for horror films.
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50
LA Weekly Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
(Ferrer's) performance as the sensitive private dick borders on beatific as he stumbles about a nighttime Hollywood Boulevard waxing lyrical about "love, sex and betrayal."
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50
San Francisco Chronicle Peter Stack
Quickly assumes an appealing mockumentary style.
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50
Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum
This goofball comedy is easy to take and just as easy to leave alone--unless you develop an affection for the hapless characters, which isn't too hard to do.
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40
Los Angeles Times Gene Seymour
The droll cast--especially Ferrer, who's exquisite as a tough-talking dunce--deserved something more fully realized than this.
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38
San Francisco Examiner G. Allen Johnson
Spoof both of P.I.s and independent filmmakers is languidly paced and not very funny.
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38
Chicago Tribune Barbara Shulgasser
Although Where's Marlowe abounds with many supposedly clever ideas, it's about as badly made as anything you'll see anywhere on television.
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30
Film.com Moira Macdonald
Stretched too thin, looks cheap, and can't quite go the distance.
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