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The Million Dollar Hotel (2000)

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Average Rating: 4.2/10
Reviews Counted: 42
Fresh: 10 | Rotten: 32

Critics say the weirdness of The Million Dollar Hotel is more grating and pretentious than interesting. Also, it takes too long to get to the conclusion.

Average Rating: 3.5/10
Critic Reviews: 13
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 11

Critics say the weirdness of The Million Dollar Hotel is more grating and pretentious than interesting. Also, it takes too long to get to the conclusion.

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Legendary filmmaker Wim Wenders returns to the screen with this loosely structured murder mystery. The Million Dollar Hotel unites Wender's obsession with cool music, lost souls, and American trash culture. Set in 2001, the film opens with Tom Tom (Jeremy Davies) taking a flying leap off the roof of the Million Dollar Hotel, an ironically titled dive in the seedy section of L.A. Told in an extended flashback, Tom Tom recounts the murder investigation of a down-and-out artist and son of a media

R, 2 hr. 2 min.

Drama, Art House & International, Mystery & Suspense

Directed By: Wim Wenders

Written By: Nicholas Klein

In Theaters: Feb 25, 2000 Wide

On DVD: Jun 12, 2001

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Cast

Jeremy Davies
Tom Tom
Milla Jovovich
Eloise
Mel Gibson
Skinner
Jimmy Smits
Geronimo
Peter Stormare
Dixie
Amanda Plummer
Vivien
Gloria Stuart
Jessica
Tom Bower
Hector
Donal Logue
Charley Best
Bud Cort
Shorty
Julian Sands
Terence Scopey
Harris Yulin
Stanley Goldkiss
Richard Edson
Joe
Charlayne Woodard
Jean Swift
Conrad Roberts
Stix
Tim Roth
Izzy Goldkiss

Critic Reviews for The Million Dollar Hotel

All Critics (54) | Top Critics (16) | Fresh (10) | Rotten (32) | DVD (5)

It is probably asking too much of this phantasmagoria that it make sense.

February 23, 2001 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle

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Bob Graham

San Francisco Chronicle

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If you're looking for a defining Wenders image, try starting with the gloomy angels in overcoats in Wings Of Desire.

February 9, 2001 Full Review Source: Toronto Star

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Geoff Pevere

Toronto Star

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An exercise in whimsy.

February 9, 2001 Comment

Kevin Maynard

Mr. Showbiz

Top Critic

If any of these characters were half as resonant as Wenders appears to think they are, the film might have seemed charming instead of merely stranded.

February 9, 2001 Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly

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Owen Gleiberman

Entertainment Weekly

Top Critic

Audiences partial to this rather rarefied material will find plenty to enjoy in the technically polished production, but those not on Wenders' wavelength will be seriously alienated.

February 7, 2001 Full Review Source: Variety

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David Stratton

Variety

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The script that Nicholas Klein has conjured from Bono's idea is a quicksand that sucks down a solid cast.

February 6, 2001 Comment

Peter Travers

Rolling Stone

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Self-indulgent and boring; mature teens only.

January 1, 2011 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media

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Ellen MacKay

Common Sense Media

Les amateurs de films se basant avant tout sur le d�veloppement d'ambiances langoureuses seront conquis d'avance.

February 12, 2006 Full Review Source: Panorama

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Jean-Fran�ois Vandeuren

Panorama

A delicate, immensely moving elegy about jewels in the trash, love amidst suffering, fraternity in poverty.

November 18, 2002 Full Review Source: Entertainment Today

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Brent Simon

Entertainment Today

An absurd comedy set in an LA flophouse...

November 19, 2001 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews

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Dennis Schwartz

Ozus' World Movie Reviews

The kind of kitchen sink included disaster that Wenders has demonstrated he will make more often than not.

April 28, 2001 Full Review Source: Matinee Magazine

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Chuck Rudolph

Matinee Magazine

It plays like a sop thrown down by a genius who imagines his every pens�e is both precious and engagingly satirical.

March 30, 2001 Full Review Source: Ottawa Citizen

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Jay Stone

Ottawa Citizen

Doesn't live up to its name, nor to the promise of big-name stars like Gibson, Bono or Jovovich.

March 27, 2001 Full Review Source: Apollo Guide

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Janet Branagan

Apollo Guide

Turns out to be almost as shabby as its name.

March 5, 2001 Full Review Source: Film Journal International

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Ed Kelleher

Film Journal International

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Not many people I have spoken to have seen this film but as a Jeremy Davies fan (whom I discovered a love for first in his portrayal of Charles Manson in Helter Skelter and then by accident as Topper in the darkly deviant black comedy Ravenous) I would have to say that it is one of the most haunting and heartbreaking

November 16, 2010

Unknown Hobo

Super Reviewer

The film version of a literary style known as Magical RealismIt's a screwball tragedy, a term made up by someone else to describe this film. There are no others of this type. It's a love story without "They lived happily ever after"; it's a mystery (the essence of real) in a subtly surreal world. Not only is the story

May 21, 2009

MisterYoda ?

Super Reviewer

The Million Dollar Hotel Quotes

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1. Dixie: I am the walrus. God is just the middle man.
– Submitted by Lea L (8 months ago)
1. Dixie: Well, it's all about believing, and if we believe in something, then that's real, isn't it? And if enough people believe in the same thing, then that's reality.
– Submitted by Lea L (8 months ago)
1. Dixie: Let's vote! There is two letters on each ballot, a Y and a N. A Y means why and and a N means why not.
– Submitted by Lea L (8 months ago)