| Description |
1 videodisc (158 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
| System Details |
DVD, region 1, widescreen presentation; Dolby Digital. |
| Language |
Closed-captioned. |
| Note |
Title from container. |
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Based on the book by Robert Graysmith. |
| Cast |
Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Edwards, Robert Downey Jr., Brian Cox, John Carroll Lynch, Chloe Sevigny, Ed Setrakian, John Getz, John Terry, Candy Clark, Elias Koteas, Dermot Mulroney, Donal Logue. |
| Credits |
Director of photography, Harris Savides ; editor, Angus Wall ; music, David Shire ; costume designer, Casey Storm ; production designer, Donald Graham Burt ; visual effects supervisor, Eric Barba. |
| Audience |
MPAA rating: R; for strong killings, language, drug material, and brief sexual images. |
| Summary |
A serial killer in the San Francisco Bay Area taunts police with his letters and cryptic messages. Looks into the lives of the four men most effected by the killer: San Francisco PD Homicide, David Toschi and William Armstrong, the San Francisco Chronicle reporters Paul Avery and Robert Graysmith. Displays the psychological and emotional effects of the killings, as well as the endless procedural details of the investigation (handwriting experts, the "2500" suspects), the letters sent to the San Francisco Chronicle by Zodiac and the work of a 20+ year investigation that wears down and whittles away at any kind of normal life for Toshi and Graysmith. Both men are obsessed with Zodiac and both pay for this obsession with the hard years and loves lost and never regained. |
| Subject |
Serial murderers -- California -- San Francisco -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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Murder -- Investigation -- California -- San Francisco -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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Detectives -- California -- San Francisco -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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Investigative reporting -- California -- San Francisco -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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DVDs.
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San Francisco (Calif.) -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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| Genre |
Feature films.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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| Added Author |
Chaffin, Ceán.
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Fischer, Bradley J.
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Medavoy, Mike.
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Messer, Arnold.
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Vanderbilt, James.
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Fincher, David.
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Gyllenhaal, Jake, 1980-
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Ruffalo, Mark.
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Edwards, Anthony, 1962-
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Downey, Robert, Jr., 1965-
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Cox, Brian, 1946-
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Lynch, John Carroll, 1963-
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Sevigny, Chloë.
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Setrakian, Ed.
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Getz, John, 1946-
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Terry, John.
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Clark, Candy.
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Koteas, Elias, 1961-
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Mulroney, Dermot.
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Logue, Donal, 1966-
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Graysmith, Robert.
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Warner Bros. Pictures (1969- )
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Paramount Pictures Corporation.
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Phoenix Pictures.
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Paramount Home Entertainment (Firm)
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| ISBN |
1415732086 |
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9781415732083 |
| Standard No. |
097363460145 |
| Music No. |
34601 Paramount Home Entertainment |
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