Tenacious homicide detective Cassie Mayweather and her still-green partner are working a murder case, attempting to profile two malevolently brilliant young men: cold, calculating killers whose dark secrets might explain their crimes.
Acting
Baby Gosling's smirk could start fires. Pitt's dead eyes haunt.
Writing
The Nietzsche-kid dialogue hits different in 2024.
Director
Barbet Schroeder
Sandra Bullock
Cassie Mayweather
Ben Chaplin
Sam Kennedy
Ryan Gosling
Richard Haywood
Michael Pitt
Justin Pendleton
Agnes Bruckner
Lisa Mills
Chris Penn
Ray Feathers
R. D. Call
Rod Cody
Tom Verica
Al Swanson
Janni Brenn
Ms. Elder
John Vickery
Restaurant Manager
Krista Carpenter
Olivia Lake
Neal Matarazzo
Male Officer in Flashback
Adilah Barnes
Lab Technician
Jim Jansen
Lawyer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Gosling and Pitt reportedly stayed in character off-set, creeping out the crew. Method or menace? You decide.
This rode the post-Columbine wave of 'dangerous intelligent youth' panic—Leopold and Loeb for the TRL generation.
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