8MM

Thriller, Mystery

Nicolas Cage	Tom Welles
James Gandolfini	Eddie Poole
Chris Bauer	George Higgins/Machine
Anthony Heald	Daniel Longdale
Catherine Keener	Amy Welles
Joaquin Phoenix	Max California
Peter Stormare	Dino Velvet
Myra Carter	Mrs. Christian
Amy Morton	Janet Mathews
Jenny Powell	Mary Ann Mathews

Director	Joel Schumacher
Producer	Judy Hofflund; Gavin Polone; Joseph M. Caracciolo; Joel Schumacher
Writer	Andrew Kevin Walker

The movie revolves around an S8-film that was found in a safe by a just recently widowed woman. The film contains a very disturbing and cruel murder of a young girl. However, the film is not an actual movie with actors and such. Now the wealthy widow hires a private investigator named Tom Welles (Nicolas Cage), who is trying to figure out what happened. Tom Welles follows a trail of evidence and gets really involved with the case. He gets so obsessed that he sort of distances himself from his wife and daughter. When Tom finally gets closer to solving the case, he finds himself in bigger trouble than he thought possible.