Where's Marlowe? Movie Review 1998

Sendup of both indie filming and the private eye genre in a b&w and color combo. NYU film school grads Crawley (Def) and Edison (Livingston) decide to make a documentary about private investigators and choose nearly bankrupt L.A. detectives Boone (Ferrer) and Murphy (Slattery) as their subjects. The dicks latest case seems to involve a wife, a mistress, and, soon, Murphy's demise and the two film students decide to lend a more active hand in solving the case.

Distribution

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Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 99 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Satire & Parody, Private Eyes, L.A., Behind the Scenes, Filmmaking

Screenplay

Daniel Pyne, John Mankiewicz

Cast

Miguel Ferrer, John Slattery, John Livingston, Dante "Mos Def" Beze, Allison Dean, Clayton Rohner, Barbara Howard, Elizabeth Schofield

Cinematography

Greg Gardiner

Director

Daniel Pyne

Music

Michael Convertino

Producer

Paramount Pictures