The Bone Collector is a 1999 thriller film starring Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie, directed by Phillip Noyce and produced by Martin Bregman. The movie was based on the crime novel The Bone Collector written by Jeffery Deaver, concerning the quadriplegic detective Lincoln Rhyme. It was the first book of the Lincoln Rhyme series. Quadriplegic forensics expert Lincoln Rhyme and a patrol cop, Amelia Donaghy , team up to solve a string of murders all connected to a serial killer by his signature: a single shard of bone is removed from each of the victims. Rhyme communicates with Amelia via... phone as she examines the various crime scenes and collects evidence and reports back to him. The killer poses as a New York taxi driver, and abducts and kills those who get in his taxi. The first two victims are a married couple named Alan and Lindsay Rubin, who get a taxi home but then find themselves kidnapped by the killer. Amelia finds Alan's body buried in a Civil War-era railroad bed. She also finds a piece of shellfish, which eventually leads Amelia - working with Rhyme - to Alan's wife, and a scrap of paper. The detectives find Mrs.
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| Release date: | August 29, 1999 |
| Directed by: | Phillip Noyce |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 118 Minutes |
| Producer: | Martin Bregman, Michael Scott Bregman, Louis A. Stroller |
| Editor: | William Hoy |
| Music by: | Craig Armstrong |
| Cinematography: | Dean Semler |
| Screenplay by: | Jeremy Iacone |
| Estimated budget: | $73,000,000 |
| Adapted from: | The Bone Collector |
| Genre: | Thriller, Action |