15 minutes [videorecording] / New Line Cinema presents an Industry Entertainment, New Redemption/Tribeca Productions, a John Herzfeld picture ; producers Nick Wechsler, Keith Addis, David Blocker, John Herzfeld ; written and directed by John Herzfeld.
Robert De Niro, Edward Burns, Kelsey Grammer, Avery Brooks, Melina Kanakaredes, Karel Roden, Oleg Taktarov. Videodisc release of the 2001 motion picture. Special features: "Go beyond the movie" features: documentary "True tabloid", documentary "Does crime really pay?"; tabloid stars interview gallery; fact track trivia; "All access pass" features: feature-length audio commentary with director John Herzfeld; delected scenes with optional director commentary; rehersal footage featuring Robert De Niro and Edward Burns; "Oleg's video"--Actual video footage captured from the actor's perspective; God Lives Underwater's music video "Fame"; DVD-ROM content: script-to-screen; original website and more.
Summary:
When two Eastern European criminals come to New York City, one of them steals a video camera and starts to film all of their activities. When they learn how the American media can make a remorseless killer look like the victim and in turn make them rich, they target a media-savvy NYPD homicide detective and a media-naive NYFD fire marshal (both happen to be the cops investigating their criminal activities). Along the way, they film everything they do in order to sell their video to a local tabloid TV show.
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