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Spooked (film)
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Wikipedia article
'Spooked' is a 2004 New Zealand film directed by Geoff Murphy and loosely based on Ian Wishart's novel 'The Paradise Conspiracy', which itself is based on actual events in New Zealand. Partly funded by the New Zealand Film Commission, 'Spooked' had its first screenings in the market at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival where it was first reviewed.
The film performed poorly at the box office after some negative reviews
despite its cast of prominent New Zealand actors.
Plot
Investigative journalist Mort Whitman (Cliff Curtis) is onto the story of his lifetime, the most important story in the nation. It was huge, involving a big payoff from a multinational bank to a second-hand computer dealer Kevin Jones (Christopher Hobbs). Tracing the days leading up to Kevin's suspicious death, Mort reveals Kevin's increasing paranoia and erratic behaviour through the eyes of his best mate Jimmy Blick (John Leigh) and girlfriend Ruby Elder (Miriama Smith). What dangerous secrets had he stumbled upon? Did the forces - private security, police, SIS or CIA - that increasingly menaced his life, kill him? Or did he simply drink too much and crash his car? Mort is determined to get to the bottom of it if it kills him.
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