

8MM
You can't prepare for where the truth will take you.
A small, seemingly innocuous plastic reel of film leads surveillance specialist Tom Welles down an increasingly dark and frightening path. With the help of the streetwise Max, he relentlessly follows a bizarre trail of evidence to determine the fate of a complete stranger. As his work turns into obsession, he drifts farther and farther away from his wife, family and simple life as a small-town PI.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $40M
- Box office
- $96.6M
- Language
- English
- new york city
- pornography
- underground
- loss of loved one
- sex shop
- obsession
- investigation
- porn actor
- snuff
- sadomasochism
- child pornography
- private investigator
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Germany, United States of America
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalR26 Feb 1999
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical1823 Apr 1999
United Arab EmiratesAE
- PhysicalDVD28 Nov 2018
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalR 18+15 Apr 1999
CanadaCA
- Physical18ADVD3 Dec 2002
ArgentinaAR
- Theatrical1815 Apr 1999
BelgiumBE
- TheatricalKNT/ENA 10 Mar 1999
BrazilBR
- Theatrical1830 Apr 1999
ColombiaCO
- Theatrical16 Apr 1999
CzechiaCZ
- Theatrical18+6 May 1999
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical155 Mar 1999
EgyptEG
- Theatrical5 May 1999
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8MM was released on 26 February 1999.
Audience reviews
4- W7/10
Wuchak
4/29/2018
Into the perverse underworld of smut, S&M and snuff films RELEASED IN 1999 and directed by Joel Schumacher, "8MM" chronicles events when a private investigator (Nicolas Cage) is hired by an aged wealthy woman whose husband recently passed away. A snuff film was found in his safe and she wants to see if the girl in the movie (Jenny Powell) really died or not. Amy Morton appears as the girl’s mother while Joaquin Ph…
- T5/10
tmdb44006625
3/9/2019
8MM probably only got greenlit due to the success of Se7en. Like Se7en, 8MM explores the existence of people who are simply pure evil while the main character wants to know why they are like this. 8MM doesn't provide many answers but it also isn't thematically complex. It follows a standard whodunit plot. While Nicolas Cage gives a solid performance, there are times where he takes us out of the story with his signatu…
- A6/10
Andre Gonzales
3/17/2023
Another one of Nicholas Cage's crazy movies. Like all the rest of his movies, this one was good too.
- G1/10
GenerationofSwine
9/5/2023
Joel Schumacher does it again. Look into how this film was made, what went into it, the intended directors, the intended stars, the intended budget. It started as a low budget "Dark and Gritty" film that was going to be "hand held" and star Russel Crowe and be directed by David Fincher... that would probably have worked. Look at the release date, 1999, when audiences welcomed low budget movies done well. Back i…
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