8MM
Directed by Joel Schumacher
Starring Nicholas Cage, Joaquin Phoenix, James Gandolfini, Peter Stormare and Jenny Powell
Tom Welles (Nicholas Cage), a private eye, is hired by a wealthy widow whose well-known husband passed away recently. She has found a reel of 8 millimeter film in his safe. On the film is a cruel rape and the slaughtering of a young girl (Jenny Powell), who obviously does not pretend or act: A snuff-movie. Welles soon visits a porn shop and enlists its gregarious and philosophical cashier, Max (Joaquin Phoenix) to help him enter the underworld of Cleveland's porn industry. After visiting the girl's mother and her rude and tactless ex-boyfriend Warren (Norman Reedus), Welles soon finds himself being torn further and further away from his wife and baby daughter and submerging himself in a world of sex, lies, and murder.