DIRECTED BY: Wim Wenders

WRITTEN BY: Bono (story), Nicholas Klein (screenplay)

MEL GIBSON AS: Detective Skinner

GENRE: Thriller, Drama, Mystery

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PLOT SUMMARY:

The Million Dollar Hotel follows the supposed murder of Izzy Goldkiss (Tim Roth). FBI Agent Skinner (Mel Gibson) is sent into investigate the crime, and to weed out the killer. When he reaches the ‘hotel’, he comes across many of the forgotten types of people living in the city. You have Geronimo, who is a self proclaimed Native American artist. Dixie, played with great gusto by Peter Stormare, as the ‘fifth’ Beetle that is still waiting for his royalty payments, as well as recognition. Eloise, who is the neighborhood ‘whore’. And then there is Tom-Tom, played by Jeremy Davies. He’s the center of the story, being that he’s the ‘village idiot’ of the bunch, and has the trust of everyone in the Hotel. Agent Skinner has a few days to find out who the killer is, while the residents of the hotel devise a scheme to sell off Izzy’s fabled ‘Tar Paintings’. –IMDB

RELEASE DATES:

2000 February 9 (Germany – Berlin International Film Festival)
2000 February 10 (Germany, Switzerland)
2000 February 11 (Austria)
2000 February 25 (United States)
2000 March 15 (Belgium, France)
2000 March 31 (Italy)
2000 April 12 (Hong Kong)
2000 April 14 (Sweden)
2000 April 21 (Finland)
2000 April 28 (Spain, United Kingdom)
2000 May 4 (Hong Kong)
2000 May 18 (Netherlands)
2000 May 26 (Brazil, Iceland, Poland, Portugal)
2000 June 9 (Cyprus)
2000 July 4 (Norway- Filmquart Film Festival)
2000 July 20 (Israel)
2000 August 25 (Denmark)
2000 September 28 (Czech Republic)
2000 September 29 (Norway)
2000 October 5 (Hungary)
2000 November 3 (Turkey)
2000 November 4 (Indonesia)
2000 November 30 (Australia)
2000 December – (Poland – Camerimage Film Festival)
2001 February 2 (United States – limited)
2001 February 22 (Argentina)
2001 March 1 (Slovenia)
2001 March 28 (Japan)
2001 May 31 (Malaysia)
2001 November 30 (South Africa)
2002 May 31 (South Korea)
2006 November 21 (Greece – Thessaloniki International Film Festival)
2007 November 27 (Italy – Turin Film Festival)

BOX OFFICE GROSS:

United States: $59,989

FILMING LOCATIONS:

Los Angeles, California, USA.

TRIVIA:

- The film’s story was conceived by and the film produced by Bono, the lead singer of U2. The band have contributed songs to all Wim Wenders’ films since Until the End of the World (1991). The band makes a brief cameo appearance in the hotel’s lobby. The hotel is an actual hotel in L.A. and Bono was inspired to come up with the idea for the film after the group shot the video for the song “Where the Streets Have No Name” there in the mid-1980s. In the video the band gave a live performance on the roof from where Tom-Tom jumps.

- ‘Tim Roth’ was the original choice for Tom Tom, but couldn’t commit due to scheduling conflicts. He plays the much smaller role of Izzy instead.

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