Story Line
A small, seemingly innocuous plastic reel of film leads surveillance specialist Tom Welles down an increasingly dark and frightening path. With the help of the streetwise Max, he relentlessly follows a bizarre trail of evidence to determine the fate of a complete stranger. As his work turns into obsession, he drifts farther and farther away from his wife, family and simple life as a small-town PI.
“You can't prepare for where the truth will take you.”
Top Cast
Nicolas Cage
Tom Welles
Joaquin Phoenix
Max California
James Gandolfini
Eddie Poole
Peter Stormare
Dino Velvet
Anthony Heald
Longdale
Chris Bauer
Machine
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Rating
6.5/ 10
Release Date
1999-02-26
Runtime
2h 3m
Genres
ThrillerCrimeMystery
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8MM Collection
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User Reviews (4)
Wuchak
7/10
•4/29/2018Into the perverse underworld of smut, S&M and snuff films
RELEASED IN 1999 and directed by Joel Schumacher, "8MM" chronicles events when a private investigator (Nicolas Cage) is hired by an aged wealthy woman whose husband recently passed away. A ...
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5/10
•3/9/20198MM probably only got greenlit due to the success of Se7en. Like Se7en, 8MM explores the existence of people who are simply pure evil while the main character wants to know why they are like this. 8MM doesn't provide many answers but it also isn't th...
Andre Gonzales
6/10
•3/17/2023Another one of Nicholas Cage's crazy movies. Like all the rest of his movies, this one was good too.
GenerationofSwine
1/10
•9/5/2023Joel Schumacher does it again. Look into how this film was made, what went into it, the intended directors, the intended stars, the intended budget.
It started as a low budget "Dark and Gritty" film that was going to be "hand held" and star Russe...