Watch Zero Effect (1998) Free Online

Release Date: 1998

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

Categories: Movies, Mystery, Thriller, Comedy Thriller, Black Comedy, Indie, Crime Thriller, 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, a brilliant but reclusive private detective for hire, traditionally works from afar with assistant Steve Arlo as his representative in the field. Socially awkward and inept but extraordinarily confident in his deductive abilities, Zero keeps himself locked in his apartment where he composes awful songs on his guitar and subsists on a diet of tuna, Tab, pretzels, Campbell's soup, and amphetamines. Zero and Arlo are retained by Gregory Stark (Ryan O'Neal) to investigate who is blackmailing him. During the LESS