Where's Marlowe? - Movie Review

Rating: 3 out of 5

If you're going to make yet another mockumentary of something, it's good to pick a topic that hasn't been done to death, at least, and that's where Where's Marlowe? manages to succeed. Parroting the private eye genre, with Miguel Ferrer as our Sam Spade wannabe, a documentary crew follows him around until it becomes obvious he is so hapless that he is going to lose his whole business. To salvage the situation, the crew decides to join Ferrer's crew and help him finish his last few cases -- ensuring they still have a movie but breaking the detached and unbiased role of a documentary crew. Up until this point, the movie's a lot of silly fun, goofing on both documentary and P.I. cliches with aplomb. But after this point the movie becomes all about the actual case... alternately meaningless, confusing, and just plain stupid. Where's Marlowe? Who cares?

Facts and Figures

Year: 1999

Run time: 97 mins

In Theaters: Thursday 1st October 1998

Distributed by: Paramount

Reviews

Contactmusic.com: 3 / 5

Rotten Tomatoes: 17%
Fresh: 2 Rotten: 10

IMDB: 6.4 / 10

Cast & Crew

Director: Daniel Pyne

Producer: Clayton Townsend

Screenwriter: John Mankiewicz, Daniel Pyne

Starring: Miguel Ferrer as Joe Boone, John Livingston as A.J. Edison, Mos Def as Wilt Crawley, John Slattery as Kevin Murphy, Allison Dean as Angela, Clayton Rohner as Sonny 'Beep' Collins, Elizabeth Schofield as Monica Collins, Barbara Howard as Emma Huffington

Also starring: Dante Beze, Clayton Townsend, John Mankiewicz, Daniel Pyne