

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
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.