Zodiac
Crime, History, Thriller
Paramount Pictures  (3/2/2007) 158 mins R

7.9 (71,558 votes)
A serial killer named Zodiac starts his trauma in the San Francisco Bay Area on 4th July, 1969 by shooting two people. In August, letters are sent to The San Francisco Examiner, The Chronicle and The Vallejo Times Herald. Each letter is part of a cryptic message that contained clues to identify the killer. On appearance of these letters, few investigators and reporters start the quest for the murderer. Prominent amongst them were homicide detective David Toschi (Mark Ruffalo) with his partner Inspector Bill Armstrong (Anthony Edwards), the expert reporter Paul Avery (Robert Downey Jr.) and a cartoonist Robert Graysmith (Jake Gyllenhaal). The four work in their own way to gather lots of circumstantial evidence against Zodiac. They get so much preoccupied by this case, that they almost forget their personal lives. But, Zodiac' salways a step ahead of them at any time. Graysmith continues h...

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Cast and Crew
Jake Gyllenhaal  ......  Robert Graysmith
Mark Ruffalo  ......  Inspector David Toschi
Anthony Edwards  ......  Inspector William Armstrong
Robert Downey Jr.  ......  Paul Avery
Brian Cox  ......  Melvin Belli
John Carroll Lynch  ......  Arthur Leigh Allen
Director  .....  David Fincher; Alexander Bulkley
Producer  .....  Mike Medavoy; Cean Chaffin; Ceán Chaffin; Brad Fischer
Writer  .....  James Vanderbilt; Robert Graysmith
Cinematography  .....  Harris Savides
Musician  .....  David Shire
Notes
Goofs:
Miscellaneous: Actors in the film pronounce "Vallejo," the name of the town, the way outsiders tend to -- they assume it's "Vuh - lay - ho." Locals, however, which would definitely include police and even San Francisco reporters, pronounce it "Vuh - lay - o." (more)

Trivia:
Screenwriter Shane Salerno optioned the Robert Graysmith book "Zodiac" when he was just nineteen years old and developed it with Graysmith for several years before selling it to Disney's Touchstone Pictures in a seven figure deal. Salerno wrote several drafts of the screenplay before multiple administration changes at Touchstone derailed the project about the mysterious San Francisco serial killer, Zodiac. (more)

Filming Locations:
4th Street, Downtown, Los Angeles, California, USA (more)

Quotes:
[first lines]
Mike Mageau: Where have you been? I've been waiting since 7:00.
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Awards:
24 nominations (more)