The Darwin Awards (2006) on Netflix
R20061h 34mAdventureComedyRomance
Michael Burrows profiles criminals for the San Francisco police until the sight of blood costs him his job. An insurance company pairs him with Siri Taylor to investigate strange deaths.
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- Rotten Tomatoes25%
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Plot summary
Michael Burrows profiles criminals for the San Francisco Police Department. After he is fired, he approaches an insurance company with an idea: identify people likely to end their own lives by accident before the company sells them a policy. He impresses a manager by describing the man's private life in detail, and gets the work. The company pairs him with Siri Taylor, who handles its strangest cases. Together they travel the country investigating unusual deaths.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Darwin Awards (2006)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- This was Chris Penn's last film appearance: he died on January 24, 2006, the day before the film's premiere. The same film marked Winona Ryder's first feature since 2002.
- The film stages full and partial re-enactments of real "Darwin Awards", the earliest of which were fictitious, most notably the debunked JATO Rocket Car story.
