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The Million Dollar Hotel is a 2000 drama film based on a concept story by Bono and Nicholas Klein, directed by Wim Wenders, and starring Jeremy Davies, Milla Jovovich, and Mel Gibson.
The Million Dollar Hotel: Directed by Wim Wenders. With Jeremy Davies, Milla Jovovich, Mel Gibson, Jimmy Smits. Tragi-comic, romantic whodunnit set in a run down hotel which plays host to mentally ill people too poor to afford medical insurance.
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- Drama, Mystery, Thriller
- Wim Wenders
- 2000-02-10
His 2000 film The Million Dollar Hotel stars Mel Gibson as FBI agent Skinner, a grizzled, no-nonsense detective keen on surveillance and digital communication and prone to his fair share of underhanded tactics.
Mel Gibson plays Skinner, an FBI agent investigating the death of Izzy Goldkiss, a resident at the Million Dollar Hotel, a residential building inhabited by social outcasts and lunatics.
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- Wim Wenders
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A group of very different people live in a hotel in Los Angeles, California including the romantically involved Tom Tom (Davies) and Eloise (Milla Jovovich). The events that unfold are the result of the death of an important resident, the son (Tim Roth) of a billionaire media mogul. His father commissions an F.B.I. agent (Gibson) to look into his d...
Jeremy Davies as Tom TomJimmy Smits as GeronimoThe story was originally developed by Bono in 1987 when filming the music video for "Where the Streets Have No Name".
Box office
The film had an estimated budget of $8,000,000, but opened to only $29,483 in U.S. box office, with little more success in subsequent weeks or in other countries.
Critical reception
The Million Dollar Hotelreceived poor reviews, obtaining 25% on Rotten Tomatoes and 25 of 100 on Metacritic, despite winning the Silver Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2000. In an October 2000 press conference in Sydney, before the Australian release of the film, Mel Gibson said, "I thought it was as boring as a dog's ass." He later retracted:
Overview. A federal agent searches for a potential killer among the bizarre residents of a dilapidated Los Angeles hotel. Wim Wenders. Director. Bono. Screenplay. Nicholas Klein.
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Feb 4, 2001 · March, 2001. Izzy Goldkiss, the son of a wealthy businessman, jumps off the roof of L.A.’s Million Dollar Hotel, a skid row flophouse filled with social dropouts and the mentally ill. FBI agent J.B. Skinner is pressed by Izzy’s father to find who pushed him.
