Murder by Numbers
Two gifted high school students execute a perfect murder - then become engaged in an intellectual contest with a seasoned homicide detective.
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 1h 55m
- Released
- 2002
- Country
- United States
Details
Release year: 2002
Storyline
Two gifted high school students execute a perfect murder - then become engaged in an intellectual contest with a seasoned homicide detective.
Top credits
Sandra Bullock ā Cassie Mayweather
Ben Chaplin ā Sam Kennedy
Ryan Gosling ā Richard Haywood
Michael Pitt ā Justin Pendleton
Did you know
ā¢ The scene near the end of the movie, where Ryan Gosling licks Sandra Bullock's face, was not scripted. After a few takes, Gosling asked Bullock if it would be okay if he added it in to prove his character's sick nature.
ā¢ The characters Richard Haywood and Justin Pendleton are loosely based on real-life murderers Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold.
ā¢ This is the fourth Hollywood film adaptation of the infamous 1924 Leopold-Loeb murder case. The first was Alfred Hitchcock's Rope (1948), the second Richard Fleischer's Compulsion (1959) and the third Tom Kalin's Swoon (1992).
Box Office
Gross (Domestic): $31,945,749
Opening Weekend (Domestic): $9,307,394 (2002-04-21)
User reviews
Entertaining enough, with some flaws.
Gripping despite being overly familiar
By the Numbers
Technical specs
- Sound mix
- DTS, Dolby Digital, SDDS
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
- Color
- Color
