The Darwin Awards (film)
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| The Darwin Awards | |
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 Promotional poster for The Darwin Awards |
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| Directed by | Finn Taylor |
| Produced by | Jason Blum Debbie Brubaker Dieter Busch Frank Capra III Charles Hsiao Laurie Miller Peter Naish Steven Siebert Jane Sindell Johnny Wow |
| Written by | Finn Taylor |
| Starring | Joseph Fiennes Winona Ryder David Arquette Juliette Lewis Wilmer Valderrama Chris Penn Julianna Margulies Robin Tunney Brad Hunt Josh Charles Judah Friedlander Lukas Haas D.B. Sweeney |
| Music by | David Kitay |
| Cinematography | Hiro Narita |
| Editing by | Rick LeCompte |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Release date(s) | January 25, 2006 (Sundance) |
| Running time | 93 min. |
| Language | English |
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The Darwin Awards is a 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, Brad Hunt, Metallica.
[edit] Plot
Joseph Fiennes stars as Burrows, a detective hired by an insurance company to profile Darwin Award candidates who accidentally kill themselves, in order to save the insurance company's money.
Winona Ryder plays Siri, a work-hardened yet sweetly authentic insurance investigator working with Burrows.
[edit] Trivia
- The title is based on a real set of awards given to people who inadvertently "help" natural selection by acts of sheer stupidity that result in their removal from the gene pool, either by their death or any other act that makes them incapable of reproducing.
- Metallica perform their song "Sad But True" in the film. It was recorded at a regular live show in Salt Lake City on November 22, 2004. The show was interrupted during "Sad But True" but the song was only played once. To celebrate the premiere of the movie at the Sundance Film Festival on Wednesday, January 25, 2006, the band played at a private party following the screening that day.
- This was Chris Penn's last movie.
