The Million Dollar Hotel
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| Directed by | Wim Wenders |
| Starring | Jeremy Davies Milla Jovovich Mel Gibson Jimmy Smits Donal Logue Peter Stormare Amanda Plummer and Tim Roth |
| Release date(s) | February 2, 2000 |
| Running time | 122 min |
| Language | English |
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The Million Dollar Hotel is 2000 drama film based on a concept story by Bono of U2 and Nicholas Klein, and directed by Wim Wenders. It stars Jeremy Davies, Milla Jovovich and Mel Gibson. The film features music by U2, and was released on the soundtrack, The Million Dollar Hotel: Music from the Motion Picture.
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[edit] Plot
The movie is about a group of very different people who live in a hotel in Los Angeles, focusing primarily on Tom Tom (Davies) and his romance with Eloise (Milla Jovovich). The events that unfold in the film are the result of the apparent suicide of the son of a United States Senator (Roth) at the hotel. His father commissions an FBI agent (Gibson) to look into his death.
[edit] Production
The story was originally developed by Bono in 1987 when filming the famous live video for "Where the Streets Have No Name". The movie was optioned by Gibson's production company in 1992. Bono was in discussions with Gary Oldman for the lead role of Tom Tom at the time. The movie was sidelined until 1999 due to disagreements between Gibson and Oldman over their requirements of who would direct the film[citation needed].
The movie had an estimated budget of $8 million, but opened to only $29,483 in US box office, with little more success in subsequent weeks or in other countries.[1] It also received very poor reviews, obtaining 25 of 100 on Metacritic [2] and 23% on Rotten Tomatoes.[3] Gibson said in a later interview that the film was "boring as a dog's ass." He had little time to develop his character before filming started.
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[edit] External links
- Official web site
- The Million Dollar Hotel at the Internet Movie Database
- The Million Dollar Hotel at Rotten Tomatoes
- The Million Dollar Hotel at Box Office Mojo
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