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Taking Lives (2004)

Taking Lives poster
Directed by
D.J. Caruso
Genre
drama film, crime film
Country
Australia, United States, Canada
Runtime
1h 39m
Rated
R
Rating
6.4 of 10 from 1,766 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

An FBI profiler hunts a serial killer who assumes the identities of the people he murders. She teams up with a local detective to try and catch him before he strikes again.

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What happens

Taking Lives is a 2004 American psychological thriller film directed by D. J. Caruso and starring Angelina Jolie and Ethan Hawke, with supporting roles by Kiefer Sutherland, Olivier Martinez, Tchéky Karyo, Jean-Hugues Anglade, and Gena Rowlands. Written by Jon Bokenkamp and loosely adapted from the 1999 novel by Michael Pye, the film centers on an enigmatic serial killer who takes on the identities of his victims. The film was released in the United States on March 19, 2004, by Warner Bros. Pictures. It received generally negative reviews from critics, but was a moderate commercial success. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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