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Where's Marlowe?
Paramount Classics


9.0

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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

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TV Guide Ken Fox

This smart spoof of film noir and filmmaking is very clever and riotously funny.

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.

New York Daily News Jami Bernard

Belongs to an intellectually stimulating subgenre that examines the thin line between documentary maker and subject.

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.

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."

San Francisco Chronicle Peter Stack

Quickly assumes an appealing mockumentary style.

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.

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.

San Francisco Examiner G. Allen Johnson

Spoof both of P.I.s and independent filmmakers is languidly paced and not very funny.

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.

Film.com Moira Macdonald

Stretched too thin, looks cheap, and can't quite go the distance.

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Where's Marlowe? Paramount Classics

Where's Marlowe?
Paramount Classics