8mm (film)

8mm is a 1999 AmericanGerman crime mystery thriller film directed by Joel Schumacher and written by Andrew Kevin Walker. The film stars Nicolas Cage as a private investigator who delves into the world of snuff films.

After looking through missing persons files, Tom discovers that the girl is Mary Ann Mathews Jenny Powell, and visits her mother, Janet Mathews Amy Morton. While searching the house with her permission, he finds Mary Anns diary, in which she says that she went to Hollywood to become a film star. He asks Mrs. Mathews whether she wants to know the truth, even if it is a horrible truth. She says that she wants to know what happened to her daughter, so after reading the diary and a note left for her mother inside of it, he leaves it for her and then leaves.In Hollywood, with the help of an adult video store employee called Max California Joaquin Phoenix, Tom penetrates the underworld of illegal pornography. Contact with a sleazy talent scout named Eddie Poole James Gandolfini leads them to director Dino Velvet Peter Stormare, whose violent pornographic films star a masked man known as Machine Chris Bauer. To gain more evidence, Tom pretends to be a client interested in commissioning a hardcore bondage film to be directed by Velvet and starring Machine. Velvet agrees and arranges a meeting in New York City. ........

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