The Bone Collector is a 1999 American psychological crime thriller film directed by Phillip Noyce and starring Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie. An adaptation of the 1997 crime novel of the same name by Jeffery Deaver, it follows a quadriplegic homicide detective (Washington) and a newly-recruited patrol officer (Jolie) investigating the esoteric crimes of a serial killer in New York City.