The Million Dollar Hotel DVD rip English (Dutch Subs)

The Million dolllar Hotel 2000
Verenigde Staten / Duitsland / Groot Brittannië
Drama / Mystery
122 minuten

geregisseerd door Wim Wenders
met Jeremy Davies, Milla Jovovich en Mel Gibson

Het verhaal (geschreven door Bono van U2) speelt in een goedkoop hotel in Los Angeles waar psychisch gestoorde mensen onderdak hebben. De zoon van een miljonair overlijdt, en er komt een rechercheur om de zaak te onderzoeken. Deze agent haalt het leven van de gasten overhoop, om er achter te komen of de jongen zelfmoord pleegde of werd vermoord.



Wim Wenders's THE MILLION DOLLAR HOTEL is a well-filmed movie set in a majestic, dilapidated hotel on the outskirts of Hollywood. The opener shows Tom Tom (Jeremy Davies), the eccentric, slightly retarded, skateboard-riding narrator, wandering in slow motion at daybreak on the roof of the hotel, as a hypnotic U2 song completes the moment. The film consists of many of these near-perfect fantasy capsules, strung together by a vague plot--that Agent Skinner (Mel Gibson), a clownish detective, is investigating the supposed murder of an artist named Izzy who was living at the hotel, and who is the son of a millionaire. What Skinner learns immediately is that most of the hotel's residents are, like Tom Tom, mentally disabled and basically harmless. Geronimo (Jimmy Smits) is one of the few hotel occupants who seems capable of committing such a crime, but even he is more entertaining than threatening. Through Skinner's observation of his subjects, viewers witness some delectably sweet events, such as the magical...