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Blood Work is a 2002 American crime, drama and action film directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, who also produced it for Malpaso Productions. Based on the novel by Michael Connelly and adapted by Brian Helgeland, it centers on a serial killer, is set in Los Angeles, and was filmed in Long Beach. The cast includes Jeff Daniels, Anjelica Huston and Dylan Walsh, with cinematography by Tom Stern, editing by Joel Cox, production design by Henry Bumstead, and a score by Lennie Niehaus.
Running 110 minutes, the film was made on a budget of $50,000,000 and earned $31,794,718 at the box office. It was distributed by Warner Bros. Entertainment and is rated R.
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6.2Still recovering from a heart transplant, a retired FBI profiler returns to service when his own blood analysis offers clues to the identity of a serial killer.
Cast
- Clint Eastwood as Terry McCaleb
- Jeff Daniels as Jasper 'Buddy' Noone
- Anjelica Huston as Dr. Bonnie Fox
- Wanda De Jesus as Graciella Rivers
- Tina Lifford as Detective Jaye Winston
- Paul Rodríguez as Detective Ronaldo Arrango
Themes
- based on novel or book
- heart
- police
- houseboat
- investigation
- ex-cop
- murder
- serial killer
- heart transplant
- armed robbery
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Ratings
IMDb
6.4/10
50,228 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
52%
Metacritic
64/100
- Year
- 2002
- Runtime
- 110 min
- Genres
- Action, Crime, Drama
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- 2 wins total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Clint Eastwood
- Screenplay by
- Brian Helgeland
- Based on
- Blood Work , by Michael Connelly
- Produced by
- Clint Eastwood
- Starring
- Clint Eastwood Jeff Daniels Wanda De Jesús Tina Lifford Paul Rodriguez Dylan Walsh Anjelica Huston
- Cinematography
- Tom Stern
- Edited by
- Joel Cox
- Music by
- Lennie Niehaus
- Production company
- Malpaso Productions
- Distributed by
- Warner Bros. Pictures
- Release date
- August 9, 2002 ( 2002-08-09 )
- Running time
- 110 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $50 million
- Box office
- $31.8 million
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- action film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Based on
- Blood Work
- Main subject
- serial killer
- Director
- Clint Eastwood
- Screenwriter
- Michael Connelly
- Cast member
- Tina Lifford
- Composer
- Lennie Niehaus
- Producer
- Clint Eastwood
- Production company
- Malpaso Productions
- Cinematographer
- Tom Stern
- Narrative location
- Los Angeles
- Duration
- 106
- FilmAffinity ID
- 414633
- Distribution format
- video on demand
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- publication date
- 2002-01-01
- title
- Blood Work
- film editor
- Joel Cox
- distributed by
- Warner Bros. Entertainment
- after a work by
- Michael Connelly
- production designer
- Henry Bumstead
- review score
- 52%
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Encyclopedic overview
Blood Work is a 2002 American mystery thriller film starring, produced, and directed by Clint Eastwood. It co-stars Jeff Daniels, Wanda De Jesús, and Anjelica Huston. The story is an adaptation of the 1997 novel of the same name by Michael Connelly.
Blood Work released by Warner Bros. Pictures on August 9, 2002. The film received mixed reviews from critics and was a box-office bomb, grossing $31.8 million against a $50 million budget. Eastwood won the Future Film Festival Digital Award at the Venice Film Festival for his work on the film.
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