The Darwin Awards (2006)
Popularity4/5
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2025-09 to 2026-08
Directors
Finn Taylor
Cast
Joseph Fiennes, Winona Ryder, David Arquette, Juliette Lewis, Wilmer Valderrama, Chris Penn
The story
The film opens with a car with a JATO rocket strapped to it. The movie then shifts to Michael Burrows, a criminal profiler for the San Francisco Police Department. Shot in documentary style, the film is ostensibly a dissertation by a film school graduate that follows Michael throughout the story.
Genres
Adventure, Komödie, black comedy film, independent film, road movie, romantic comedy
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