Crimetime

Crimetime
Directed by	George Sluizer
Produced by	George Sluizer David Pupkewitz Phil Alberstat Barry Barnholtz Marc Vlessing
Written by	Brendan Somers
Starring	Stephen Baldwin Pete Postlethwaite Sadie Frost Geraldine Chaplin Karen Black Rory Campbell-Wheeler
Music by	David A. Stewart
Cinematography	Jules van den Steenhoven
Edited by	Fabienne Fawley
Release date	United States: August, 1996 United Kingdom: 29 November 1996
Running time	118 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Budget	₤4.3 million

Crimetime is a 1996 British thriller film starring Stephen Baldwin, Pete Postlethwaite, Sadie Frost and directed by George Sluizer.

Crimetime is set in the future where the media is nearly omnipotent. When an unemployed actor named Bobby (Stephen Baldwin) is hired to play a serial killer on a crime reenactment television series he desires to understand the killer's motivations and begins researching the crimes getting police officers to describe the grisly details of recent murders. Bobby becomes an expert and a star, which delights the real culprit and inspires him to go on to even more lurid, headline-grabbing crimes.

Crimetime was released to negative critical reaction mainly noting the confusion of the plot. Shlomo Schwartzberg of Boxoffice magazine stated "Crime Time makes little sense at its best of times. At its worst, it's unwatchable."Channel 4 in their review noted that in spite of " a decent cast and the odd stylistic flourish this psychodrama is dragged down by histrionic plotting, clunky talk and general sense of confusion over what it wants to be."

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