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Se7en

  • 19951995
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  • 2h 7m
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8.6/10
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Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman in Se7en (1995)
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  • Crime
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Two detectives, a rookie and a veteran, hunt a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his motives.Two detectives, a rookie and a veteran, hunt a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his motives.Two detectives, a rookie and a veteran, hunt a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his motives.
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  • Director
    • David Fincher
  • Writer
    • Andrew Kevin Walker
  • Stars
    • Morgan Freeman
    • Brad Pitt
    • Kevin Spacey
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  • Director
    • David Fincher
  • Writer
    • Andrew Kevin Walker
  • Stars
    • Morgan Freeman
    • Brad Pitt
    • Kevin Spacey
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 1.8KUser reviews
    • 177Critic reviews
    • 65Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
  • Top rated movie #19
    • Nominated for 1 Oscar
      • 29 wins & 43 nominations total

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    Morgan Freeman
    Morgan Freeman
    • Somersetas Somerset
    Brad Pitt
    Brad Pitt
    • Millsas Mills
    Kevin Spacey
    Kevin Spacey
    • John Doeas John Doe
    Andrew Kevin Walker
    Andrew Kevin Walker
    • Dead Man at 1st Crime Sceneas Dead Man at 1st Crime Scene
    • (as Andy Walker)
    Daniel Zacapa
    Daniel Zacapa
    • Detective Taylor at First Murderas Detective Taylor at First Murder
    Gwyneth Paltrow
    Gwyneth Paltrow
    • Tracyas Tracy
    John Cassini
    John Cassini
    • Officer Davisas Officer Davis
    Bob Mack
    • Gluttony Victimas Gluttony Victim
    Peter Crombie
    • Dr. O'Neillas Dr. O'Neill
    Reg E. Cathey
    Reg E. Cathey
    • Dr. Santiagoas Dr. Santiago
    R. Lee Ermey
    R. Lee Ermey
    • Police Captainas Police Captain
    George Christy
    George Christy
    • Workman at Door of Somerset's Officeas Workman at Door of Somerset's Office
    Endre Hules
    Endre Hules
    • Cab Driveras Cab Driver
    Hawthorne James
    Hawthorne James
    • George the Night Guard at the Libraryas George the Night Guard at the Library
    William Davidson
    • First Guard at the Libraryas First Guard at the Library
    • (as Roscoe Davidson)
    Bob Collins
    • Second Guard at the Libraryas Second Guard at the Library
    Jimmy Dale Hartsell
    • Library Janitoras Library Janitor
    Richard Roundtree
    Richard Roundtree
    • Talbotas Talbot
    • Director
      • David Fincher
    • Writer
      • Andrew Kevin Walker
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    • Trivia
      As preparation for his traumatic scene in the interrogation room, Leland Orser would breathe in and out rapidly, so that his body would be overly saturated with oxygen, giving him the ability to hyperventilate. He also did not sleep for a few days, in order to achieve his character's disoriented look.
    • Goofs
      Many fans and critics initially thought the movie was clearly set in New York City, so the nearby desert was seen as a geographical error. In fact, while the story was inspired by screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker's unhappy time living in Queens, the film explicitly does not take place in NYC or any other specific locale; in this manner, the desert being so close to a major metropolitan area is not a mistake.
    • Quotes

      David Mills: Wait, I thought all you did was kill innocent people.

      John Doe: Innocent? Is that supposed to be funny? An obese man... a disgusting man who could barely stand up; a man who if you saw him on the street, you'd point him out to your friends so that they could join you in mocking him; a man, who if you saw him while you were eating, you wouldn't be able to finish your meal. After him, I picked the lawyer and I know you both must have been secretly thanking me for that one. This is a man who dedicated his life to making money by lying with every breath that he could muster to keeping murderers and rapists on the streets!

      David Mills: Murderers?

      John Doe: A woman...

      David Mills: Murderers, John, like yourself?

      John Doe: [interrupts] A woman... so ugly on the inside she couldn't bear to go on living if she couldn't be beautiful on the outside. A drug dealer, a drug dealing pederast, actually! And let's not forget the disease-spreading whore! Only in a world this shitty could you even try to say these were innocent people and keep a straight face. But that's the point. We see a deadly sin on every street corner, in every home, and we tolerate it. We tolerate it because it's common, it's trivial. We tolerate it morning, noon, and night. Well, not anymore. I'm setting the example. What I've done is going to be puzzled over and studied and followed... forever.

    • Crazy credits
      SPOILER: Kevin Spacey's name is not included in the opening titles to keep the John Doe intrigue going. To compensate, he is listed twice in the closing credits: once before the credits start rolling and once in the rolling credits in order of appearance.
    • Alternate versions
      USA laserdisc edition adds a few scenes deleted from theatrical release as a bonus at the end of the program, including: a prologue where Somerset (Morgan Freeman) is going to buy a country house. He uses his switchblade (seen many times in the final cut, but not explained) to cut out a small piece of wallpaper. There is an extended scene at the Mills' when David (Brad Pitt) is playing with his dogs, and Somerset talks to Tracy. He tells her about the house and shows her the wallpaper. She tells him that it wouldn't be such a good idea to show it to David, saying "He wouldn't understand.". These two scenes establish Somerset's characters better, and the second one helps the viewer understand why the wife chooses Somerset to talk to when she gets pregnant. She knows that Somerset is much more sensible than her husband, and will understand her. The second one however was probably dumped earlier since it is included among the dailies and outtakes and the first one appears as a deleted scene.
    • Connections
      Edited into L'affaire Caravage (2019)
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    Simply one of the darkest and best thrillers of the 1990's – but don't let anyone spoil it for you.....
    `Days from retirement' Detective Somerset is teamed with new-to-the-city Detective Mills to investigate a murder that quickly becomes a series. Somerset realises that the killer must be smart and is using classic literature to model his killings on the seven deadly sins, however Mills finds to hard to see him as anything other than a crazy man. With the killer close to completing his work, Mills and Somerset begin to close in on him. However nothing is as it seems in a dark depressing city full of moral degradation and apathy.

    When David Fincher came onto the scene with his debut feature Alien3 the world only paused to scorn a film that didn't fit in with the Alien franchise. Yes it wasn't a great film – but I loved the sense of mood, the dark the tension in the shadows that Fincher created. Years later we have Se7en, Fight Club, The Game, and at people are getting Fincher!

    Se7en was his major break through – where his dark visions also reaped box-office gold. The story doesn't sound like much – mismatched partners (one young, cocky and reckless – the other a few days from retirement) go after a serial killer who is carrying out a series of twisted murders…..it sounds like Lethal Weapon meets a straight to video thriller. But happily it rises above that by so much it's unbelievable….it certainly shows how a story put in good hands can work out. From the start we are entombed in mood – the city where it always rains, the uncaring people etc. The we begin to find murders – but Fincher doesn't show us the murders, he lets us see the aftermath in the shadows and lets us imagine the rest – Genius!

    What you don't see is more gory than what you do. Meanwhile the tension is cranked up to fever pitch as the race to catch the killer is accelerated. When we meet the killer, the film just gets better…right up to an ending that is simply one of the most logical, emotional and gripping endings I've ever seen. I promise you'll leave the cinema shell shocked.

    Freeman is excellent as Somerset – so good that it's a role he's tried to do again in `Kiss the girls' etc. But here he is the perfect foil for both Mills and the killer. Brad Pitt is also superb....he isn't allowed to trade on his looks here and does very well in a film that has little opportunity for him to pander to his female fans – he spends a lot of it looking beaten up. Paltrow is OK with what she has – but this isn't really a film that focuses on female roles. R. Lee Ermey is as good as ever and it's a sign of how good the cast is that actors of the stature of Charles Dutton and John C McGinley are basically in roles that barely count as cameos.

    However the best performance is from Kevin Spacey in the years before he became an Oscar lovie and stopped doing bad guys or dark characters. He is only on screen for a small portion of the film but his dialogue is superb and he delivers it faultlessly. In the scene where he shares a car ride with Mills and Somerset you literally hang on his every word. However alongside Spacey Fincher stands triumphant with his dark vision given the perfect story and perfect actors.

    At heart this is a cop thriller – but excellent performances, excellent mood and a moral lesson from an excellent Spacey make this quite simply the most jaw-droppingly excellent thriller of the 1990's.
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    • bob the moo
    • Mar 29, 2002

    FAQ12

    • Why do some of the SWAT guys call Mills and Somerset "Dicks"?
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    Details

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    • Release date
      • September 22, 1995 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official site
      • Official Facebook
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Seven
    • Filming locations
      • Pacific Electric Building, Los Angeles, California, USA
    • Production companies
      • Cecchi Gori Pictures
      • Juno Pix
      • New Line Cinema
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $33,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $100,125,643
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $13,949,807
      • Sep 24, 1995
    • Gross worldwide
      • $327,333,559
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      2 hours 7 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • DTS
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.39 : 1

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