Zodiac

Resource Information

The work Zodiac represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Oshkosh Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Zodiac

Statement of responsibility

Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures present a Phoenix Pictures production ; produced by Mike Medavoy, Arnold W. Messer, Bradley J. Fischer, James Vanderbilt, Ceán Chaffin ; screenplay by James Vanderbilt ; directed by David Fincher

Contributor

• Paramount Pictures Corporation
• Phoenix Pictures
• Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967)
• Cox, Brian, 1946-
• Downey, Robert, Jr., 1965-
• Edwards, Anthony, 1962-
• Fincher, David
• Graysmith, Robert
• Gyllenhaal, Jake, 1980-
• Koteas, Elias, 1961-
• Logue, Donal, 1966-
• Lynch, John Carroll, 1963-
• Mulroney, Dermot
• Ruffalo, Mark
• Sevigny, Chloë

Subject

• Detectives -- California | San Francisco -- Drama
• Film adaptations
• Investigative reporting -- California | San Francisco -- Drama
• Murder -- Investigation -- California | San Francisco -- Drama
• Serial murderers -- California | San Francisco -- Drama
• Thrillers (Motion pictures)
• Thrillers (Motion pictures, television, etc.)
• Videodiscs for the hearing impaired

Genre

• Drama
• Thrillers (Motion pictures)
• Thrillers (Motion pictures, television, etc.)
• Videodiscs for the hearing impaired

Language

eng

Summary

A serial killer in the San Francisco Bay Area taunts police with his letters and cryptic messages. Looks into the lives of the four men most effected by the killer: San Francisco PD Homicide, David Toschi and William Armstrong, the San Francisco Chronicle reporters Paul Avery and Robert Graysmith. Displays the psychological and emotional effects of the killings, as well as the endless procedural details of the investigation (handwriting experts, the "2500" suspects), the letters sent to the San Francisco Chronicle by Zodiac and the work of a 20+ year investigation that wears down and whittles away at any kind of normal life for Toshi and Graysmith. Both men are obsessed with Zodiac and both pay for this obsession with the hard years and loves lost and never regained

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Director of photography, Harris Savides ; editor, Angus Wall ; music, David Shire ; costume designer, Casey Storm ; production designer, Donald Graham Burt ; visual effects supervisor, Eric Barba

Dewey number

791.43/72

Intended audience

MPAA rating: R; for strong killings, language, drug material, and brief sexual images

Language note

English or French dialogue, subtitles in English or Spanish ; closed-captioned

LC call number

PN1995.9.S297

LC item number

Z63533 2007

PerformerNote

Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Edwards, Robert Downey Jr., Brian Cox, John Carroll Lynch, Chloë Sevigny, Elias Koteas, Dermot Mulroney, Donal Logue

Runtime

158

Target audience

general

Technique

live action