The Darwin Awards (film)
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| Directed by | Finn Taylor |
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Jason Blum Debbie Brubaker Dieter Busch Frank Capra III |
| Written by | Finn Taylor |
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Joseph Fiennes Winona Ryder David Arquette Juliette Lewis Wilmer Valderrama Chris Penn |
| Music by | David Kitay |
| Cinematography | Hiro Narita |
| Edited by | Rick LeCompte |
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| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
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94 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The Darwin Awards is a 2006 American adventure comedy film based on the website of the same name.
Written and directed by Finn Taylor, the film premiered January 25, 2006, at the Sundance Film Festival. The film features Joseph Fiennes, Winona Ryder, David Arquette, Juliette Lewis, Wilmer Valderrama, Chris Penn, Julianna Margulies, Robin Tunney, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Brad Hunt, Adam Savage, Jamie Hyneman and Metallica. This was Chris Penn's last movie before his death on January 24, 2006, the day before the film's premiere. The film includes several full and partial re-enactments of "Darwin Awards", the earliest of which were fictitious, most notably the debunked JATO Rocket Car story.
The film opens with a car with a JATO rocket strapped to it. The movie then shifts to Michael Burrows, a criminal profiler for the San Francisco Police Department. Shot in documentary style, the film is ostensibly a dissertation by a film school grad that follows Michael throughout the story. Fired from the police force after his hematophobia allows a serial killer to get away, Michael wallows in a deep depression for several weeks before coming up with a way to combine his Darwin Awards obsession with his talent for profiling. He will help insurance companies detect people more likely to accidentally end their own lives, so they are not sold insurance policies. After impressing an insurance company manager with his profiling talent, Michael is paired up with Siri, a specialist in strange insurance cases.
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