The Million Dollar Hotel
The Million Dollar Hotel is a 2000 drama film based on a concept story by Bono and Nicholas Klein, directed by Wim Wenders, and starring Jeremy Davies, Milla Jovovich, and Mel Gibson. The film features music by U2 and various musicians that was released on the soundtrack, The Million Dollar Hotel: Music from the Motion Picture.
The Million Dollar Hotel
- Nicholas Klein
- Bono
- Nicholas Klein
Deepak Nayar
Bono
Nicholas Klein
Bruce Davey
Wim Wenders
- Lions Gate Films (United States)
- Concorde Filmverleih (Germany)[1]
- Icon Film Distribution (United Kingdom)[2]
- February 9, 2000 (Berlin International Film Festival)
- February 25, 2000 (American Film Market)
- February 2, 2001 (United States)
122 minutes
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
English
$8 million
$6 million
Plot[edit]
A group of very different people live in a hotel in Los Angeles, California including the romantically involved Tom Tom (Davies) and Eloise (Milla Jovovich). The events that unfold are the result of the death of an important resident, the son (Tim Roth) of a billionaire media mogul. His father commissions an F.B.I. agent (Gibson) to look into his death.
Production[edit]
The story was originally developed by Bono in 1987 when filming the music video for "Where the Streets Have No Name".
Release[edit]
Critical reception[edit]
The Million Dollar Hotel received generally negative reviews from critics. It holds a 25% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 45 reviews, with an average rating of 4.4/10. It also holds a rating of 25 out of 100 on Metacritic,[3][4] despite winning the Silver Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2000.
In an October 2000 press conference in Sydney, before the Australian release of the film, Mel Gibson said, "I thought it was as boring as a dog's ass." He later explained: