115 min – Crime | Mystery | Thriller – 31 May 2013 (USA)
IMDB Rating: 7.7/10 from 181,897 users
Metascore: 78/100
Awards: 27 nominations.
Director: David Fincher
Writers: James Vanderbilt (screenplay), Robert Graysmith (book)
Plot Summary
A San Francisco cartoonist becomes an amateur detective obsessed with tracking down the Zodiac killer.
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Cast
- Jake Gyllenhaal – Robert Graysmith
- Mark Ruffalo – Inspector David Toschi
- Anthony Edwards – Inspector William Armstrong
- Robert Downey Jr. – Paul Avery
- Brian Cox – Melvin Belli
- John Carroll Lynch – Arthur Leigh Allen
- Richmond Arquette – Zodiac 1 / Zodiac 2
- Bob Stephenson – Zodiac 3
- John Lacy – Zodiac 4
- Chloë Sevigny – Melanie
- Ed Setrakian – Al Hyman
- John Getz – Templeton Peck
- John Terry – Charles Thieriot
- Candy Clark – Carol Fisher
- Elias Koteas – Sgt. Jack Mulanax
Storyline
Robert Graysmith is a cartoonist who works for the San Francisco Chronicle. His quirky ways irritate Paul Avery, a reporter whose drinking gets in the way of doing his job. The two become friends thanks to a shared interest: the Zodiac killer. Graysmith steadily becomes obsessed with the case, as Avery’s life spirals into drunken oblivion.
Graysmith’s amateur sleuthing puts him onto the path of David Toschi, a police inspector who has thus far failed to catch his man; Sherwood Morrill, a handwriting expert; Linda del Buono, a convict who knew one of the Zodiac’s victims; and others. Graysmith’s job, his wife and his children all become unimportant next to the one thing that really matters: catching the Zodiac.
The symbol of the Zodiac Killer. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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