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Directed by | Jonathan Wright |
Written by | Jennifer Archer Mike Horrigan Jonathan Wright |
Produced by | Michael Baker Jeff Sackman |
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Cinematography | Boris Mojsovski |
Edited by | Mark Arcieri |
Music by | Mark Korven |
Production companies | Bunk 11 Pictures TAJJ Media |
Distributed by | Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Vertical Entertainment |
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Running time | 100 minutes |
Country | Canada |
Language | English |
Awakening the Zodiac is a 2017 Canadian mystery crime drama film directed by Jonathan Wright and starring Shane West and Leslie Bibb. [1] [2] [3]
A couple buy a storage unit, finding evidence of the Zodiac Killer and try to solve the case.
Although the film is set in Virginia, the film was shot in Ontario, [4] especially in Almonte, outside of Ottawa. [5]
The film has 45% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. [6] Barry Hertz of The Globe and Mail awarded the film one star out of four. [7]
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