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The Black Dahlia   2006         R, 120 min. Genre: Drama / Mystery Director: Brian De Palma   Cast: Josh Hartnett, Aaron Eckhart, Scarlett Johansson, Hilary Swank, Mia Kirshner, Fiona Shaw, Mike Starr, Patrick Fischler, James Otis, John Kavanagh, Troy Evans, Pepe Serna, Angus MacInnes, Rachel Miner   Based on James Ellroy's novel about a real-life Los Angeles murder case when Elizabeth Short (Mia Kirshner) was brutally murdered and grotesquely mutilated, this film is fiction but uses details from the still unsolved 1947 case. Ex-boxers, now LAPD detectives Bucky Bleichert (Josh Hartnett) and Lee Blanchard (Aaron Eckhart) investigate the murder in their unique ways. Bucky dumps girlfriend Kay Lake (Scarlett Johansson) when he comes under the spell of the beautiful bisexual, Madeleine (Hilary Swank), who, it turns out, once slept with Elizabeth. Then there are the drugs and police corruption that enter the picture in this difficult case. Cast Josh Hartnett Bucky Bleichert Aaron Eckhart Lee Blanchard Scarlett Johansson Kay Lake Hilary Swank Madeleine Linscott Mia Kirshner Elizabeth Short Fiona Shaw Ramona Linscott Mike Starr Russ Millard Patrick Fischler Ellis Loew James Otis Dolph Bleichert John Kavanagh Emmet Linscott Troy Evans Chief T. Green Pepe Serna Dos Santos Angus MacInnes Capt. John Tierney Rachel Miner Martha Linscott