Cast: Josh Hartnett, Scarlett Johansson, Hilary Swank, Aaron Eckhart, Mia Kirshner, Kevin Dunn, Rose McGowan, Richard Brake, Mike Starr, John Kavanagh, Gregg Henry, Patrick Fischler, Joey Slotnick, Rachel Miner, Angus MacInnes, Victor McGuire, Graham Norris, Fiona Shaw
Director: Brian De Palma
Writers: Josh Friedman
Plot: Master storyteller Brian De Palma directs this adaptation of James Ellroy`s best-selling crime novel. "The Black Dahlia" weaves a fictionalized tale of obsession, love, corruption, greed and depravity around the true story of the brutal murder of a fledgling Hollywood starlet that shocked and fascinated the nation in 1947 and remains unsolved today. Two ex-pugilist cops, Lee Blanchard (Aaron Eckhart) and Bucky Bleichert (Josh Hartnett), are called to investigate the homicide of ambitious silver-screen B-lister Betty Ann Short (Mia Kirshner) A.K.A. "The Black Dahlia"-an attack so grisly that images of the killing were kept from the public. While Blanchard`s growing preoccupation with the sensational murder threatens his marriage to Kay (Scarlett Johansson), his partner Bleichert finds himself attracted to the enigmatic Madeleine Linscott (Hilary Swank), the daughter of one of the city`s most prominent families-who just happens to have an unsavory connection to the murder victim..
