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Alessandro Nivola, Chris Penn, D.B. Sweeney

A forensic detective (Fiennes) and an insurance claims investigator (Ryder) trek to investigate a potential Darwin Award winner. From www.darwinawards.com: "The Darwin Awards salute the improvement of...( read more  read more... ) the human genome by honoring those who accidentally kill themselves in really stupid ways."

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R, 1 hr. 33 min.

Directed by: Finn Taylor

Release Date: July 5, 2006

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DVD Release Date: July 31, 2007

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  • mjgildea
    January 12, 2009
    mjgildea
    The Darwin Awards is a flawed but oftentimes fun movie. Joseph Fiennes and Winona Ryder are great even if their chemistry is iffy at times. This movie is more of a series of funny parts but as a continuous narrative its really lacking. The casting, cameos or whatever were all acr...( read more)oss the board and I spent a lot of time watching The Darwin Awards distracted wondering what the hell was going to happen next. Then Metallica showed up. Seriously, Metallica is in this movie. The documentary aspect of this movie was its worst part. I understand that it was trying to hold the story together but mostly it was just annoying.
  • garyX
    January 4, 2009
    garyX
    Based on the website devoted to people who have removed themselves from the gene pool in variously absurd ways, this cash-in of the idea features Joseph Fiennes doing his best Adrian Monk impersonation as an insurance investigator looking into the claims of those involved. On pap...( read more)er, this sounds like a great idea but what you get is a half arsed episode of the X-Files, except it's "funny". Except it isn't. They just recreate some of the more ridiculous unintentional suicides while Fiennes and Winona Ryder go through the motions of a completely unconvincing romance and pretend to be insightful by spouting Sunday supplement pop psychology. Oh, and there's also a serial killer investigation that couldn't be more tacked on if it was written on a post-it stuck on the front of the DVD box. The whole thing just feels like a pilot episode of a TV series that never got made because it only has one idea that doesn't even stretch to the 80 minutes on display here.
  • Godless
    January 4, 2009
    Godless
    A very enjoyable rough film.
  • liquidchick76
    September 7, 2008
    liquidchick76
    relatively amusing with a lot of fun cameos.
  • limoradalloway
    July 1, 2008
    limoradalloway
    This film, though it's ideas don't seem fully-developed, has a lot of heart, seen mostly in the sympathy Joseph Fiennes' character has for his fellow man.
  • aloneinsorrow
    September 26, 2009
    aloneinsorrow
    It's interesting how they created some of the website's stories into a film..
  • ChrisChristoferson
    September 12, 2009
    ChrisChristoferson
    i liked t..the sence of humour was kinda black and alternative..
    i also enjoyed watching wynona ryder..
  • rockingirlblack
    August 3, 2009
    rockingirlblack
    Loved the Metallica cencert part. Funny.
  • nowheredream
    August 2, 2009
    nowheredream
    pretty entertaining.
  • violensi
    July 12, 2009
    violensi
    Cute film. ♥ Joseph Fiennes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9-pAhKHPuE

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  • hypeserver
    August 20, 2007
    hypeserver
    I feel that it's required to give a link to the site of the real Darwin awards. http://www.darwinawards.com the majority of the movie was based on real deaths dating back to 1991.
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