Crimetime

For other uses, see Crimetime (disambiguation).

Crimetime
Directed by	George Sluizer
Written by	Brendan Somers
Produced by	George Sluizer David Pupkewitz Phil Alberstat Barry Barnholtz Marc Vlessing
Starring	Stephen Baldwin Pete Postlethwaite Sadie Frost Geraldine Chaplin Karen Black Rory Campbell-Wheeler
Cinematography	Jules van den Steenhoven
Edited by	Fabienne Fawley
Music by	David A. Stewart
Distributed by	First Independent Films
Release dates	August 1996 (1996-08) (U.S.) 29 November 1996 (1996-11-29) (UK)
Running time	118 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Budget	£4.3 million ($6 million)

Crimetime is a 1996 British thriller film starring Stephen Baldwin, Pete Postlethwaite, Sadie Frost and directed by George Sluizer.

Plot

Crimetime is set in the future where the media is nearly omnipotent. When an unemployed actor named Bobby (Stephen Baldwin) is hired to play a serial killer on a crime reenactment television series he desires to understand the killer's motivations and begins researching the crimes getting police officers to describe the grisly details of recent murders. Bobby becomes an expert and a star, which delights the real culprit and inspires him to go on to even more lurid, headline-grabbing crimes.

Reception

Crimetime was released to negative critical reaction mainly noting the confusion of the plot. Shlomo Schwartzberg of Boxoffice magazine stated "Crime Time makes little sense at its best of times. At its worst, it's unwatchable." Channel 4 in their review noted that in spite of "a decent cast and the odd stylistic flourish, this psychodrama is dragged down by histrionic plotting, clunky talk and general sense of confusion over what it wants to be."

External links

• Crimetime at AllMovie
• Crimetime at IMDb
• Crimetime at Rotten Tomatoes
• Crimetime at Box Office Mojo