ZERO EFFECT Film 1998. Written by Jake Kasdan. Directed by Jake Kasdan. Starring Bill Pullman, Ben Stiller, Kim Dickens, Angela Featherstone and Ryan O|Neal.

Source Features: BBB (11) TIMELINE (21) MAP (1) OTHER (14) THEMES (1) Key Word Search SourceRecord Name/DescriptionRecord Comments All MediaAdvertisingAnimated FilmAnimated SeriesComedy ActsComic BooksComic StripsFilmLiteratureMagazinesMusicOtherRadioTheaterTV SeriesVideo Games Source All SourcesZero Effect Categories All GroupsBogus Business BureauFictitious TimelineMake Believe MapOther Order by Record Name SourceSource YearGroupCategorySubcategory ASCDESC

Total Records: 47 - Medium: FILM

#	Record Name	Group	Category	Subcategory
BOGUS BUSINESS BUREAU
1	Darryl Zero	BBB	Services	Private Investigation
	Darryl Zero Private investigator that never meets his clients. He doesn't speak with them or communicate directly. It's his policy. He doesn't negotiate his fee. He works at a flat rate. Under some unusual circumstances he'll work pro bono. Never in between.
2	G. McFetridge Planetarium	BBB	Entertainment	Museums
	G. McFetridge Planetarium Planetarium where Gregory Stark has a heart attack - and Gloria saves him. Actually restaurant and museum called Vista House near Portland, Oregon.
3	Gail's Cafe	BBB	Dining	Cafes and Delis
	Gail's Cafe Location of where Gregory Stark makes his third blackmail payment.
3	Hotel Pinehurst	BBB	Travel	Hotels
	Hotel Pinehurst Budget motel where Darryl Zero and Steve Arlo investigate Clarissa's murder, actually the Powell Motel in Portland.
4	Jack's Diner	BBB	Dining	Diners
	Jack's Diner Diner where Darryl Zero takes Gloria Sullivan.
5	MainPlace Department Store	BBB	Retail	Shopping Centers
	MainPlace Department Store Location of where Gregory Stark makes his seventh blackmail payment.
3	NW Zoo	BBB	Entertainment	Zoos
	NW Zoo Location of where Gregory Stark makes his fifth blackmail payment.
3	An Ode to Clarissa	BBB	Literature	Poetry
	An Ode to Clarissa Poem Stark wrote in college.
3	Oregon Timber	BBB	Construction	Construction Companies
	Oregon Timber Gregory Stark's company, Darryl Zero's new client that lost his keys.
4	Past Due Collections	BBB	Financial Companies	Financial Services
	Past Due Collections Name of sender on Stark's first blackmail letter.
3	Senior and Disabled Facility of Portland	BBB	Healthcare	Medical Services
	Senior and Disabled Facility of Portland Facility where Darryl Zero follows Gloria Sullivan to.
FICTITIOUS TIMELINE
3	January 10, 1956	Dates	20th Century: 50s	Birth Dates
	January 10, 1956 Date of birth on Darryl Zero's alter ego Mitchell Hodgemeyer's driver's license, which which Darryl shows when renting a car from Budget in Portland.
3	February 9, 1957	Dates	20th Century: 50s	Birth Dates
	February 9, 1957 Date of birth on Darryl Zero's alter ego Harold Burges' driver's license, which Darryl shows when buying a plane ticket to Portland.
3	July 18, 1967	Dates	20th Century: 60s	Birth Dates
	July 18, 1967 Date of birth written on the form shown during the opening credits, a form apparently being filled out by Darryl Zero, as each of his alter egos. It is first written as 7/18/67, then changed to 7/18/68.
3	July 18, 1968	Dates	20th Century: 60s	Birth Dates
	July 18, 1968 Date of birth written on the form shown during the opening credits, a form apparently being filled out by Darryl Zero, as each of his alter egos. It is first written as 7/18/67, then changed to 7/18/68.
3	July 15, 1996	Dates	20th Century: 90s	Events
	July 15, 1996 Date of Stark's old email that Darryl Zero finds regarding someone with the initials k.v.
3	June 12, 1997	Dates	20th Century: 90s	Events
	June 12, 1997 The day that Gregory Stark lost his keys, almost a year earlier.
3	June 23, 1997	Dates	20th Century: 90s	Events
	June 23, 1997 Gregory Stark gets a letter at the office. Comes FedEx. Stamped "Personal and Confidential". Sender's name marked as "Past Due Collections". Laser-printed, not very long. Starts out: "Mr. Stark, I have evidence linking you to your crime. You may entertain notions of impunity. But in the end everyone is culpable." There's a succession of $100,000 payments to be collected. He gets letters which lay out a maze and at the end of the maze he makes the drop.
3	February 9, 1999	Dates	20th Century: 90s	Expiration Dates
	February 9, 1999 Expiration Date on Darryl Zero's alter ego Harold Burges' driver's license, which Darryl shows when buying a plane ticket to Portland.
3	January 10, 2000	Dates	21st Century: 00s	Expiration Dates
	January 10, 2000 Expiration Date on Darryl Zero's alter ego Mitchell Hodgemeyer's driver's license, which Darryl shows when renting a car from Budget in Portland.
3	March 2	Dates	No Year	Events
	March 2 Date of $10,000 deposit listed on Darryl Zero's notepad when he does Gloria Sullivan's taxes.
3	March 7	Dates	No Year	Events
	March 7 Date of $10,000 deposit listed on Darryl Zero's notepad when he does Gloria Sullivan's taxes.
3	March 15	Dates	No Year	Events
	March 15 Date of $25,000 deposit listed on Darryl Zero's notepad when he does Gloria Sullivan's taxes.
3	March 16	Dates	No Year	Events
	March 16 Date of $12,500 transfer listed on Darryl Zero's notepad when he does Gloria Sullivan's taxes.
3	March 19	Dates	No Year	Events
	March 19 Date of $8,500 transfer listed on Darryl Zero's notepad when he does Gloria Sullivan's taxes.
3	March 20	Dates	No Year	Events
	March 20 Date of $10,000 deposit listed on Darryl Zero's notepad when he does Gloria Sullivan's taxes.
3	March 30	Dates	No Year	Events
	March 30 Date of $10,000 transfer listed on Darryl Zero's notepad when he does Gloria Sullivan's taxes.
3	March 31	Dates	No Year	Events
	March 31 Date of $10,000 deposit listed on Darryl Zero's notepad when he does Gloria Sullivan's taxes.
3	April 3	Dates	No Year	Events
	April 3 Date of $15,000 deposit listed on Darryl Zero's notepad when he does Gloria Sullivan's taxes.
3	April 7	Dates	No Year	Events
	April 7 Date of $10,500 deposit listed on Darryl Zero's notepad when he does Gloria Sullivan's taxes.
3	April 14	Dates	No Year	Events
	April 14 Date of $9,500 deposit listed on Darryl Zero's notepad when he does Gloria Sullivan's taxes.
3	April 19	Dates	No Year	Events
	April 19 Date of $12,500 deposit listed on Darryl Zero's notepad when he does Gloria Sullivan's taxes.
MAKE BELIEVE MAP
3	Penman Avenue	Map	Transit Routes	Avenues
	Penman Avenue Los Angeles address on Darryl Zero's alter ego Harold Burges' driver's license, which Darryl shows when renting a car from Budget in Portland.
OTHER
4	Darryl Zero	Other	Quotes	Quotes
	Darryl Zero Darryl Zero: Passion is the enemy of precision. Forget the misnomer crime of passion. All crime is passionate. It's passion that moves the criminal to act, that disrupts the static inertia of morality.
5	Darryl Zero	Other	Quotes	Quotes
	Darryl Zero Darryl Zero: The bed we just moved is a full-size bed. In 1972, there was no size called full. They had doubles and queens. The full was invented to combine the width of a queen with the space-efficient length of a double, and eventually replaced the double in North America and Europe, except for Quebec and Sweden.
6	Darryl Zero	Other	Quotes	Quotes
	Darryl Zero Darryl Zero: I've been awake for three days. Three! Just love those amphetamines. Got to love them. Got to.
7	Darryl Zero	Other	Quotes	Quotes
	Darryl Zero Darryl Zero: The words were similar but there was a new component this time: Desperation. When you spend enough time around the chemistry of desperation, you come to recognize the smell. One desperate element is combustible. More than one desperate element is lethal.
8	Darryl Zero	Other	Quotes	Quotes
	Darryl Zero Darryl Zero: And though I never would have have anticipated it, in the end she did for me what I have done for so many. Helped solve a problem, first by observation, then by careful intervention. In other words: The Zero Effect.
9	Darryl Zero	Other	Quotes	Quotes
	Darryl Zero Darryl Zero: So ends my account of the case that I have named The Case of the Man Who Got So Stressed-Out Over His Lost Keys That He Eventually Had a Heart Attack, and It Turned Out They Were in the Sofa All Along.
10	Gloria Sullivan	Other	Quotes	Quotes
	Gloria Sullivan Gloria Sullivan: What doesn't kill you defines you.
11	Gloria Sullivan	Other	Quotes	Quotes
	Gloria Sullivan Gloria Sullivan: Are you going to come looking for me? Will you tell him about me so he can have somebody kill me? Because he will.
12	Steve Arlo	Other	Quotes	Quotes
	Steve Arlo Steve Arlo: What are you talking about? There aren't any good guys. You realize that, don't you? You realize there aren't evil guys and innocent guys. It's just a bunch of guys.
13	Steve Arlo	Other	Quotes	Quotes
	Steve Arlo Steve Arlo: He never meets his clients. He doesn't speak with them or communicate directly. It's his policy. I'm his sole representative, he's my only employer and I have full authorization to speak on his behalf on all his business.
14	Steve Arlo	Other	Quotes	Quotes
	Steve Arlo Steve Arlo: You could meet him 5 times and not realize it's the same person. He can tell you where you were born, how old your mother was at the time, and what you had for breakfast, all within 30 seconds of meeting you. He can get a criminal to confess without his realizing he's being questioned.
15	Steve Arlo	Other	Quotes	Quotes
	Steve Arlo Steve Arlo: He has a deeply nuanced and functional understanding of human behavior to rival the great psychoanalytical minds of our time. He understands the criminal mind as well as the innocent mind, the stable mind as well as the psychotic, sociopathic mind, the male as well as the female.
16	Steve Arlo & Darryl Zero	Other	Quotes	Quotes
	Steve Arlo & Darryl Zero Steve Arlo: Why are we talking on the phone? Darryl Zero: I told you. We can't be too careful. Two guys... in an airport... talking? It's a little fishy. Steve Arlo: Why are we even in an airport? Why don't we just leave? Darryl Zero: Okay, I see the confusion.
17	Untitled	Other	Themes	Solo
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