Watch Zero Effect (1998) Free Online

Release Date: 1998

Cast: Ryan O'Neal, Angela Featherstone, Sarah DeVincentis, Hugh Ross, Matt O'Toole, Bill Pullman, Ben Stiller, Kim Dickens

Categories: Movies, Thriller, Indie, Comedy, Comedy Thriller, Mystery, Crime Thriller, Black comedy

Zero Effect is a 1998 mystery film written and directed by Jake Kasdan (son of writer/director Lawrence Kasdan). It stars Bill Pullman as "the world's most private detective" Daryl Zero and Ben Stiller as his assistant Steve Arlo. It was clearly inspired by Rex Stout's series of Nero Wolfe mystery stories, which were similarly about a housebound detective (Nero = Zero) and his faithful legman (Archie = Arlo). The plot of the film is loosely based on the Arthur Conan Doyle short story A Scandal in Bohemia. The film was shot in Portland, Oregon. It was scored by The Greyboy Allstars. It was... MORE

Zero Effect is a 1998 mystery film written and directed by Jake Kasdan (son of writer/director Lawrence Kasdan). It stars Bill Pullman as "the world's most private detective" Daryl Zero and Ben Stiller as his assistant Steve Arlo. It was clearly inspired by Rex Stout's series of Nero Wolfe mystery stories, which were similarly about a housebound detective (Nero = Zero) and his faithful legman (Archie = Arlo). The plot of the film is loosely based on the Arthur Conan Doyle short story A Scandal in Bohemia. The film was shot in Portland, Oregon. It was scored by The Greyboy Allstars. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival. Daryl Zero (Bill Pullman), is the world's greatest detective, but is also a socially maladroit misanthrope. Among his quirks is that he never meets or has direct contact with his clients, instead conducting business through his assistant, lawyer Steve Arlo (Ben Stiller). Zero and Arlo are hired by Portland area millionaire Gregory Stark (Ryan O'Neal). Stark has lost the key to a safety deposit box and is being blackmailed by an unknown person who forces him to go through elaborate instructions to reach a drop off point. LESS