The Bone Collector (1999)


Denzel Washington       Lincoln Rhyme
Angelina Jolie          Amelia Donaghy
Queen Latifah           Thelma
Michael Rooker          Captain Howard Cheney
Michael McGlone         Detective Kenny Solomon
Luis Guzman             Eddie Ortiz
Leland Orser            Richard Thompson
John Benjamin Hickey    Dr Barry Lehman
Bobby Cannavale         Steve
Ed O Neill              Detective Paulie Sellitto
Richard Zeman           Lieutenant Carl Hanson
Olivia Birkelund        Lindsay Rubin
Gary Swanson            Alan Rubin

Directed by:            Phillip Noyce, Jonathan Goldman (II)
Produced by:            Michael Klawitter (II), Dan Jinks, Martin Bregman


Denzel Washington plays a quadriplegic homicide detective. He and his female partner track down a 
serial killer

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Lincoln Rhyme, a New York City detective specializing in forensics, was once the country's leading 
criminologist. Following a near-fatal injury in the line of duty, Rhyme is left bed-bound, his arms 
and legs useless, and with little will to live. Feisty, street-smart policewoman Amelia Donaghy is 
only in her early twenties but already feels aged beyond her years. On the eve of being transferred 
to a desk job, her last call as a street cop leads her to a crime scene and the discovery of a 
gruesomely-mutilated corpse. After taking a look at the physical evidence file and the photos therein, 
Rhyme is intrigued with the case. On the first day of her new job, Rhyme has Amelia pulled against her 
wishes and reassigned to assist him on the case. An unlikely pairing at first, Donaghy must become 
Rhyme's eyes, ears and legs, scouring horrific crime scenes for evidence as they race against the clock 
to prevent the next hideous act of this brutal killer.

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Quadripeligic ex-cop Lincoln Rhyme was looking forward to his assisted suicide when he got the news: 
some sicko was abducting people in a taxi and leaving them to die in particularly sadistic ways. With 
time counting down between each abduction and possible death, Rhyme recruits rather-unwilling Amelia 
Donaghy, haunted by her cop father's suicide and thinking she's next, into working the crime scenes to 
track down the killer.

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After an accident in a tunnel, a forensics expert is left as a quadriplegic who is able only to move 
his head and one finger. Setting his finger to a computer, he is able to manipulate his environment with 
the help of a loving nurse. Even so, fearing seizures that could leave him a vegetable, he plans his 
"transition" with the help of a hesitational doctor friend. That all changes when he is confronted with 
clues from a serial killer that obviously are pointed to forensics investigation. The case clearly 
re-invokes his interest in life. A sharp, young cop's quick thinking saves the first crime scene. 
Recognizing her talent for forensics, he brings her unwillingly into forensics detection. Through radio 
contact, she becomes his eyes and legs on the scene. Michael Rooker also appears as the police captain, 
who has bungled earlier killings by the serial killer and is more interested in the press than in good 
police work. Ed O'Neill and Luis Guzman are support staff who aid Washington and run interference with 
Rooker.