Zodiac
2007 · Movie · R · 157 min · ★ 7.5 · 85% critics
Across years of reporting and investigation, editors become increasingly drawn into a string of murders tied to a Zodiac-style killer. As public interest fades, an amateur cartoonist who believes he has the answers races against time to stop what he fears could be another killing.
Based on Zodiac
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Details
- Years
- 2007
- Release date
- 2007-03-02
- Language
- English
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 157 min
- Critic score
- 85/100
- TMDB rating
- 7.5/10 (11,566 votes)
- Box office
- $84,785,914
- Budget
- $65,000,000
About
If you like tense true-crime mysteries and character-driven investigations, Zodiac may hold you throughout its long case build-up; Not for you if you need action-heavy thrills, quick pacing, or a conclusive, solved ending like Seven or The Silence of the Lambs.
Pros: relentless suspense; obsessed characters; immersive true-crime vibe | Cons: very long runtime; slow stretches; inconclusive resolution
Themes
- newspaper
- journalist
- california
- based on novel or book
- police
- san francisco, california
- killing
- detective
- 1970s
- investigation
- victim
- code
- +21 more
Cast & crew
Jake Gyllenhaal
as Robert Graysmith
Mark Ruffalo
as David Toschi
Anthony Edwards
as William Armstrong
Robert Downey Jr.
as Paul Avery
Chloë Sevigny
as Melanie
Elias Koteas
as Jack Mulanax
John Carroll Lynch
as Arthur Leigh Allen
Brian Cox
as Melvin Belli
Dermot Mulroney
as Martin Lee
Charles Fleischer
as Bob Vaughn
Directed by David Fincher