The Million Dollar Hotel (2001)

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Rating: R
Release Date: Feb 2, 2001
Running Time: 122 mins. (V)
Country Of Origin: Germany
Country Of Origin: France
Country Of Origin: United States
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A tale of friendship, trust, betrayal and the overwhelming power of unconditional love. The story follows a gang of unique outcasts and misfits living in a downtown Los Angeles fleapit, known locally as the "Million Dollar Hotel". Their story is seen through the eyes of Tom Tom, a young man who serves them all like some sort of "Beggar's Butler." He has a childlike, innocent mind. Tom Tom has fallen head over heels for the tarnished street angel Eloise. As their relationship develops, the Million Dollar Hotel becomes the focus of a police investigation: one of the residents, the engaging junkie Izzy, has come to a grisly end--having fallen off the roof. Or was he pushed? To the amazement of his neighbors, Izzy is revealed to have been the son of a billionaire media magnate. Every inhabitant of the Million Dollar Hotel falls under suspicion in the inquiry led by FBI hard-liner, Detective Skinner. As Skinner's investigation proceeds, the lines between murder and suicide become very blurred, indeed,
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February 1, 2001
What kind of a movie do you get when the great Wim Wenders ("Wings of Desire, The Buena Vista Social Club") directs a story - by Bono, no less - in which Mel Gibson stars as an FBI man who investigates a murder in a fleabag L.A. hotel filled with misfits?

Gibson has already weighed in at a press conference: "I thought it was as boring as a dog's ass."

It's hard to argue. For starters, Gibson plays his role in a neck brace that makes him look like Frankenstein. The movie goes off the edge, just… Continued