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The Darwin Awards (film)
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| The Darwin Awards | |
|---|---|
 Promotional poster for The Darwin Awards |
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| Directed by | Finn Taylor |
| Produced by | Jason Blum Debbie Brubaker Dieter Busch Frank Capra III Charles Hsiao Laurie Miller Peter Naish Steven Siebert Jane Sindell Johnny Wow |
| Written by | Finn Taylor |
| Starring | Joseph Fiennes Winona Ryder David Arquette Juliette Lewis Wilmer Valderrama Chris Penn Julianna Margulies Robin Tunney Brad Hunt Josh Charles Judah Friedlander Lukas Haas D.B. Sweeney |
| Music by | David Kitay |
| Cinematography | Hiro Narita |
| Editing by | Rick LeCompte |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Release date(s) | January 25, 2006 (Sundance) |
| Running time | 93 min. |
| Language | English |
| IMDb profile | |
The Darwin Awards is a comedy film based on the website of the same name.
Written and directed by Finn Taylor, the film premiered January 25, 2006, at the Sundance Film Festival. The film features Joseph Fiennes, Winona Ryder, David Arquette, Juliette Lewis, Wilmer Valderrama, Chris Penn, Julianna Margulies, Robin Tunney, Brad Hunt, Adam Savage, Jamie Hyneman and Metallica. This was Chris Penn's last movie before his death on January 24, 2006, the day before the movie's premiere. The film includes several full and partial re-enactments of "Darwin Awards", most of which are actually urban legends, most notably the debunked JATO Rocket Car story.
Joseph Fiennes stars as Michael Burrows, a detective hired pro tempore by an insurance company to profile Darwin Award candidates who accidentally kill themselves, in order to save the insurance company's money.
Winona Ryder plays Siri, a work-hardened yet sweetly authentic insurance investigator working with Burrows.
Wilmer Valderrama plays a film director who is coincidentially the main point-of-view of the movie. He records Burrows during the final police call that ended his work prematurely, and follows him through his pursuit of a job with the insurance company.
Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman play two army-junk sellers. The two are the hosts of the TV show MythBusters. They appear during the story of the rocket car, which they effectively reproduced in their show's pilot episode.