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Actors: Bill Pullman, Ben Stiller, Ryan O'Neal, Kim Dickens, Angela Featherstone
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Zero Effect |
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ZERO EFFECT is a movie written and directed by Jake Kasdan in 1998.
Bill Pullman is a kind of modern Sherlock Holmes. As a private investigator, he's able to solve a case by deductions only without leaving his office. He doesn't have any girlfriend, spending his time, between cases, locked in his apartment, and playing (very badly) electric guitar and taking drugs.
Bill accepts the case presented by Ryan O'Neal, a rich businessman who's blackmailed. Very interested by the situation, Bill leaves L.A. in order to investigate in Portland. He soon finds out that Ryan O'Neal is blackmailed by his own daughter Kim Dickens who hates his father for having arranged the murder of her mother. The eccentric Bill will fall in love with Kim and try to help her give up her thoughts of revenge.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Zero Effect |
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1980's-1999
Romance/Love/Hugging
Yes
Crime & Scandal
Yes
Blackmail & Seduction?
Yes
Lover is...
- criminal/bad doer
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- private investigator
Age:
- 20's-30's
Eccentric:
Yes
- eccentric
Hair color?
- blonde
Hair type
- (man) short/standard wavey
Body type
- (man) average
Events of movie makes character more...
- sensitive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Intelligence
- Genius
Physique
- druggie/wino disease
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) average build
How much in movie?
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Female
Age:
- 20's-30's
Eccentric:
Yes
- emotionally unstable
- obsessed
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 40%
Hair color
- red
Hair type
- (woman) short/butch/lez
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- West
- California
City?
Yes
City:
- Los Angeles
Misc setting
- resort/hotel
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately detailed references to deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- very happy
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- vague references only
- kissing
Any profanity?
- Some foul language
If soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Modern rock/pop
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