Zodiac

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Dolby Digital: English 5.1 surround, French 5.1 surround ; subtitles available in English and Spanish.
Based on the book by Robert Graysmith.
Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Edwards, Robert Downey Jr., Brian Cox, John Carroll Lynch, Chloë Sevigny, Ed Setrakian, John Getz, John Terry, Candy Clark, Elias Koteas, Dermot Mulroney, Donal Logue.
A serial killer in the San Francisco Bay Area taunts police with his letters and cryptic messages. Looks into the lives of the four men most effected by the killer: San Francisco PD Homicide, David Toschi and William Armstrong, the San Francisco Chronicle reporters Paul Avery and Robert Graysmith. Displays the psychological and emotional effects of the killings, as well as the endless procedural details of the investigation (handwriting experts, the "2500" suspects), the letters sent to the San Francisco Chronicle by Zodiac and the work of a 20+ year investigation that wears down and whittles away at any kind of normal life for Toshi and Graysmith. Both men are obsessed with Zodiac and both pay for this obsession with the hard years and loves lost and never regained.
DVD, region 1, widescreen presentation; Dolby Digital.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

excellent submitted by Jackie77 on August 24, 2015, 8:10pm Good movie. Documents the life of the investigative reporter working the zodiak killer letters. Shows the effects it has on his mind and his home life. Great acting.

Gripping submitted by m.donovich on July 20, 2018, 3:27pm Fincher’s take on the Zodiac is intense, suspenseful, and the acting is spot on. While not always historically accurate, it plays out an interesting side note to the Zodiac killer saga as it tells it from the perspective of Robert Graysmith. Graysmith, known for his Zodiac and Zodiac Unmasked books, was known to be tortured and obsessed, which Fincher expresses with just the right amount of sympathy and contempt. In real life, Graysmith is a difficult figure, known for his inflated ego and his relentless pursuit of what very well may be the wrong man. Zodiac subtly, yet very entertainingly, portrays this dynamic. Two very big thumbs up.

Zodiac submitted by jibkidder on July 30, 2022, 9:19am FIncher is a great director, but who, for some reason, prefers stiff, unnatural dialogue. I prefer his "Mindhunter" TV show to this film, perhaps because I am more accepting of contrived dialogue in that form.

seen the stupid thing before. It sucks to see it again. submitted by Tassos on March 13, 2023, 9:37am Dropped it after the first few mins.