Nightcrawler (2014)
Nightcrawler is a 2014 crime movie directed by Dan Gilroy, with a running time of 1h 58m. It stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo and Riz Ahmed.
Lou Bloom is a gaunt, tireless hustler who talks in the language of self-help seminars and feels nothing behind the eyes. Prowling nighttime Los Angeles with a camcorder and a police scanner, he films car wrecks and shootings to sell the bloodiest footage to a fading local news station, coached by veteran producer Nina. Dan Gilroy's neo-noir is a cold satire of a media economy that pays for fear, anchored by Jake Gyllenhaal's hollowed-out, hungry performance. The city glows like a lure, and Lou learns exactly how far ambition can go when no one is watching.
Quick answers
What is Nightcrawler about?
Lou Bloom is a gaunt, tireless hustler who talks in the language of self-help seminars and feels nothing behind the eyes. Prowling nighttime Los Angeles with a camcorder and a police scanner, he films car wrecks and shootings to sell the bloodiest footage to a fading local news station, coached by veteran producer Nina. Dan Gilroy's neo-noir is a cold satire of a media economy that pays for fear, anchored by Jake Gyllenhaal's hollowed-out, hungry performance. The city glows like a lure, and Lou learns exactly how far ambition can go when no one is watching.
When was Nightcrawler released?
Nightcrawler was released on 23 October 2014.
How long is Nightcrawler?
Nightcrawler runs 1h 58m.
Who made Nightcrawler?
Nightcrawler was directed by Dan Gilroy.
Where can I watch Nightcrawler?
Nightcrawler is available on AMC Plus Apple TV Channel , AMC+, AMC+ Amazon Channel, Philo, Shout! Factory Amazon Channel and Sundance Now.
Where to watch Nightcrawler
Stream: AMC Plus Apple TV Channel , AMC+, AMC+ Amazon Channel, Philo, Shout! Factory Amazon Channel, Sundance Now
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Cast
- Jake Gyllenhaal as Louis Bloom
- Rene Russo as Nina Romina
- Riz Ahmed as Rick
- Bill Paxton as Joe Loder
- Kevin Rahm as Frank Kruse
- Michael Hyatt as Detective Frontieri
- Price Carson as Detective Lieberman
- Ann Cusack as Linda
- Kent Shocknek as Kent Shocknek
- Sharon Tay as Sharon Tay
- Carolyn Gilroy as Jenny
- Marco Rodríguez as Scrapyard Owner
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A few thoughts on Nightcrawler
Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska maps the same hollow American drive, spare ballads about loners with nothing left to lose. The game Disco Elysium hands you a broken detective and a rotting city painted in the same neo-noir palette. Frank Miller's comic Sin City pushes the nocturnal, morally bankrupt underworld to its stark black-and-white extreme.
Cold sociopaths who feel nothing and want everything
Nightcrawler hands the screen to Lou Bloom, a hollow-eyed hustler who talks in seminar slogans and feels nothing behind them. These share that chill, centering characters who pursue their goals with total, frictionless calm; the more ordinary they seem on the surface, the more disturbing underneath.
Neo-noir crawls through a city that never sleeps
Nightcrawler prowls a nighttime Los Angeles that glows like a lure while Lou films its wrecks and shootings for cash. These neo-noirs share that nocturnal pulse, moving through cities of neon and shadow where the line between investigator and predator keeps getting thinner.
Paranoid thrillers about a rotten system
Nightcrawler is a cold satire of a news economy that pays for fear, and these thrillers train the same suspicion on their institutions. Each follows someone circling a crime or a conspiracy until the real rot turns out to be the machinery around it, not one lone monster.
Crime stories you steer choice by choice
Nightcrawler makes you watch ambition curdle in real time as Lou decides how far he will go. These games hand that pressure to you, building crime and mystery stories where your choices shape who the protagonist becomes and how much darkness you are willing to chase.