Chapter 27

Chapter 27 dramatizes the days leading up to the December 1980 shooting of John Lennon outside the Dakota, the New York apartment building where Lennon lived with Yoko Ono. The story centres on Mark David Chapman, a Beatles fan who travels from Hawaii to New York carrying J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye and a loaded handgun. His admiration for Lennon has curdled into resentment, and he waits near the building for a chance to approach the musician, accompanied by Jude, a fellow admirer who does not know what he intends. The title refers to the twenty-seven chapters the novel does not have, framing Chapman's act as an imagined continuation of it.

Jarrett Schaefer wrote and directed the film, which was released in 2007 and runs 84 minutes. Jared Leto plays Chapman, with Lindsay Lohan as Jude, Judah Friedlander as photographer Paul Goresh, and Mark Lindsay Chapman as Lennon. The production, made in Canada and the United States, had a budget of 5 million dollars. Ratings sit below the midpoint on both platforms, at 5.6 out of 10 on IMDb across roughly 12,000 votes and 5.4 out of 10 on TMDB from a much smaller sample.