Spooked (film)

Spooked
Directed by	Geoff Murphy
Written by	Geoff Murphy
Starring	Cliff Curtis Ian Mune Christopher Hobbs Peter Elliot
Edited by	Michael J. Horton
Music by	John Charles
Production company	New Zealand Film Commission
Distributed by	New Zealand Film Commission
Release date	2004 (2004)
Running time	94 minutes
Country	New Zealand
Language	English
Budget	$1,000,000
Box office	$31,460

Spooked is a 2004 New Zealand film directed by Geoff Murphy and loosely based on Ian Wishart's novel The Paradise Conspiracy, which itself is based on actual events in New Zealand. Partly funded by the New Zealand Film Commission, Spooked had its first screenings in the market at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival where it was first reviewed.^[1] The film performed poorly at the box office after some negative reviews despite its cast of prominent New Zealand actors.^[2]

Investigative journalist Mort Whitman (Cliff Curtis) is onto the story of his lifetime, the most important story in the nation. It was huge, involving a big payoff from a multinational bank to a second-hand computer dealer Kevin Jones (Christopher Hobbs). Tracing the days leading up to Kevin's suspicious death, Mort reveals Kevin's increasing paranoia and erratic behaviour through the eyes of his best mate Jimmy Blick (John Leigh) and girlfriend Ruby Elder (Miriama Smith). What dangerous secrets had he stumbled upon? Did the forces - private security, police, SIS or CIA - that increasingly menaced his life, kill him? Or did he simply drink too much and crash his car? Mort is determined to get to the bottom of it if it kills him.

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