Trixie (2000)

User Rating:

5.0/10   

Director:

Alan Rudolph

Writers (WGA):

Alan Rudolph (story) &
John Binder (story) ...

Release Date:

18 August 2000 (Canada)

Genre:

Comedy | Crime | Mystery

Tagline:

The only crime she couldn't solve was the murder of the English language

Plot:

An eccentric, unconventional woman whose naive aspirations to rise from her job as a security guard to full-fledged private eye lead her into a tangled PL: mess.

Plot Keywords:

Nudity | Gambling | Jealousy | Amateur Detective | Videotape

Cast

Emily Watson	...	Trixie Zurbo
Dermot Mulroney	...	Dex Lang
Nick Nolte	...	Senator Drummond Avery
Nathan Lane	...	Kirk Stans
Brittany Murphy	...	Ruby Pearli
Lesley Ann Warren	...	Dawn Sloane
Will Patton	...	W. 'Red' Rafferty
Stephen Lang	...	Jacob Slotnick
Mark Acheson	...	Vince Deflore
Vincent Gale	...	Sid Deflore
Jason Schombing	...	Ramon
Robert Moloney	...	Alvin
Troy Yorke	...	Cleavon Arris
Wendy Noel	...	Coffee Shop Waitress
David Kopp	...	Bell Boy

MPAA:

Rated R for some language, sexuality and violence.

Runtime:

USA:116 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Iceland:12 | France:U | Spain:13 | UK:15 | USA:R (certificate #37201)

Filming Locations:

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Company:

Pandora Cinema

Trivia:

All of Senator Avery's (Nick Nolte) lines, except for sparse words or lines in response to conversation, are real quotes from politicians.

Goofs:

Factual errors: Senator Avery talks about going for his 8th term but this is impossible. Even assuming the shortest possible time in office (serving only one day of a vacated Senator's position as his first term plus 5 full terms of 6 years each and he is speaking on the first day of his 7th term) this equals 30 years and two days. He directly states he is 52 and you cannot become a Senator unless you are at least 30 meaning he must be an absolute minimum of 60 yeas and two days old.

Quotes:

Trixie: It's brains, not bullets.

Soundtrack:

Orange at Three

Murder mystery is lighter than air

Emily Watson is a charmer: she's completely naive and innocent, but then again she's not so naive, and maybe not so innocent. She seems to understand nothing, but then she's the only one who understands it all.

Watson's tour-de-force is in playing Trixie completely straight, malapropisms and all. Yeah, the twisted idioms get tired after a while, at least until a funnier one shows up.

Definitely for art house movie lovers and not the megaplex.