Papertrail (1998)

Directed by

Damian Lee

Genre

thriller film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 28m

Rating

4.8 of 10 from 10 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A loner detective is pulled back into an old unsolved serial killer case that ruined his personal life. A psychiatrist from a therapy group has been getting calls from the killer, forcing the detective to confront the past.

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What happens

Papertrail is a 1998 Canadian thriller film produced, co-written and directed by Damian Lee, starring Chris Penn, Michael Madsen and Chad McQueen (who is also credited as executive producer). In it, a loner detective is brought back to the unsolved serial killer case that once destroyed his social life, when he is asked to attend a therapy group whose psychiatrist has been receiving phone calls from the perpetrator. On North American home video, the film was renamed Trail of a Serial Killer, while it is known as Serial Cops in the U.K. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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