Murder by Numbers

– Tenacious homicide detective Cassie Mayweather and her still-green partner are working a murder case..

Type:
Movie
Rating:
6.20 / 10
Duration:
One Hour and 55 Minutes
Release Year:
2002
Murder by Numbers (2002)

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.

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Producing Country:
USA
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Murder by Numbers (2002) - Trailer

Release Date:

19 Apr 2002

Language:

English

MPAA Content-Rating:
R – Restricted

Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian. Contains some adult material. Parents are urged to learn more about the film before taking their young children with them.

Director:

Barbet Schroeder

Writer:

Tony Gayton

Main Actors:

Sandra Bullock, Ben Chaplin, Ryan Gosling, Michael Pitt

Plot:

Richard Haywood, a Californian high school's coolest kid, secretly teams up with another rich kid in his class, brilliant nerd Justin 'Bonaparte' Pendleton, whose erudition, specially in forensic matters, allows them to plan elaborately perfect murders, just for the kick, for which they set up Richard's marijuana supplier, their school's janitor Ray Feathers, as a psychotic serial killer. The case is assigned to detectives Cassie 'the hyena' Mayweather, who carries a sequoia-size chip on the shoulder from her previous life, and her brilliant new partner, Sam Kennedy, who just transferred from the vice squad; they can work together very well, and even fit romantically, but fall out over different professional attitudes towards the investigation, which Captain Rod Cody and her understandably vindictive abused ex, Assistant D.A. Al Swanson, soon ban her from when she disobeys instructions and hand to him. When the plotting boys both dig class-mate Lisa Mills, their unnatural bond comes under stress- will it break, allowing the hard-pressed police to bring them down?

Awards:

2 nominations.

Production:

Omega Entertainment

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
6.2/10
Metacritic:
50%