The End of Violence (1997)

Director:

Wim Wenders

Writers:

Nicholas Klein (story) &
Wim Wenders (story) ...

Release Date:

12 September 1997 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Thriller

Tagline:

Nothing Lasts Forever

Plot:

Mike Max is a Hollywood producer who became powerful and rich thanks to brutal and bloody action films...

Plot Keywords:

Typewriter | Observatory | Lost Identity | Surveillance Camera | Film Making

Awards:

1 win & 4 nominations

Cast

Traci Lind	...	Cat
Rosalind Chao	...	Claire
Bill Pullman	...	Mike Max
Andie MacDowell	...	Page
K. Todd Freeman	...	Six O One
Gabriel Byrne	...	Ray Bering
Chris Douridas	...	Technician
Pruitt Taylor Vince	...	Frank Cray
John Diehl	...	Lowell Lewis
Soledad St. Hilaire	...	Anita
Nicole Ari Parker	...	Ade (as Nicole Parker)
Daniel Benzali	...	Brice Phelps
Samuel Fuller	...	Louis Bering (as Sam Fuller)
Marshall Bell	...	Sheriff Call
Frederic Forrest	...	Ranger MacDermot

Also Known As:

Am Ende der Gewalt (Germany) (informal literal title)
Am.Ende.der.Gew@lt. (Germany)
Az eröszak vége (Hungary) [hu]
Crimes Invisíveis (Portugal) [pt]
Crimini invisibili (Italy) [it]
El final de la violència (Spain: Catalan title) [ca]
El final de la violencia (Spain) [es]
Koniec przemocy (Poland) [pl]
La fin de la violence (Canada: French title) [fr]
Nasilju je kraj (Croatia) [hr]
O Fim da Violência (Brazil) [pt]
To telos tis vias (Greece) [el]
Väkivallan loppu (Finland) [fi]

MPAA:

Rated R for language.

Runtime:

122 min

Country:

France | Germany | USA

Language:

English | Spanish

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby | DTS

Certification:

Iceland:12 (video rating) | Iceland:L | Singapore:NC-16 | Australia:M | Finland:K-12 | France:U | Germany:12 (w) | Hungary:14 | Mexico:B | Portugal:M/12 | Spain:13 | UK:15 | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Bronson Canyon, Griffith Park - 4730 Crystal Springs Drive, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

CiBy 2000

Trivia:

There is a scene in the film where we see a live recreation of the painting "Nighthawks" by Edward Hopper.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: When Page is holding Mike at gunpoint she holds the gun upward with the bottom of the handle facing outward and the ammo clip is clearly missing. Yet when Mike exits through the patio door she fires the gun and shatters the glass.

Quotes:

Ray Bering: I'm a computer scientist. This is Hollywood. What's not strange?

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Edward Hopper (2007) (V)

Soundtrack:

Bad News

The beginning of boredom

"The End of Violence" is a clutter of stick figures wandering through a messy story about some sci-fi "big brother" government project being tested in Los Angeles. The film trades interesting characters for interesting situations, connects the dots too late revealing too little, and ends in a self absorbed coma about as flat as warm beer. Nonetheless, the film has a respectable cast, a garnish of neo-Beat poetry, a brooding noir feel, a good soundtrack, and some husky-voiced philosophical narration by Pullman making it a par watch for the needy couch potato. (C)