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A small, seemingly innocuous plastic reel of film leads surveillance specialist Tom Welles down an increasingly dark and frightening path.
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Private detective Tom Welles (Nicolas Cage) lives a normal life with his wife (Catherine Keener) and young daughter, until he receives a startling new case. A widow named Mrs. Christian (Myra Carter) has found what appears to be a snuff film among her late husband's belongings, and she wants Welles to determine if the movie is real or fake. Welles heads to California, where a video store employee (Joaquin Phoenix) helps him infiltrate the dangerous and depraved world of illegal porn movies.
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Is 8MM a good movie?
8MM is a very dark, disturbing film that isn't for everyone. Nicolas Cage puts in an excellent performance as a private detective named Tom Welles who is hired to investigate whether a snuff film is real or acted. His journey takes him farther and farther into the realm of pornography.
Why is 8MM rated R?
Disgust and revulsion because what director Joel Schumacher and company have created is a torture chamber of a film that mercilessly drags us through expensively re-created worlds of vivid sadomasochism, extreme bondage and worse as private eye Tom Welles (Nicolas Cage) tries to determine if a snuff film in his ...
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George Higgins : You know the best part of killing someone? The look on their face. It's that look. Not when they're threatened. Not when you hurt them.
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Cast (68) · Nicolas Cage · Joaquin Phoenix · James Gandolfini · Peter Stormare · Anthony Heald · Chris Bauer · Catherine Keener · Myra Carter.
A small, seemingly innocuous plastic reel of film leads surveillance specialist Tom Welles down an increasingly dark and frightening path.
8MM: Directed by Joel Schumacher. With Nicolas Cage, Joaquin Phoenix, James Gandolfini, Peter Stormare. A private investigator is hired to discover if a ...