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Actors: Michael Douglas, Gwyneth Paltrow, Viggo Mortensen, David Suchet
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about A Perfect Murder |
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This 1998 thriller, loosely based on Hitchcock's “Dial M For Murder,” shows Steven Taylor (Douglas) in his trademark wheeler-dealer role with Gwyneth Paltrow as his trophy wife, Emily. Their marriage, shaky to begin with, is further fractured when Steven learns Emily has been sleeping with David Shaw (Mortensen), a bohemian artist who is actually a career con man. Steve blackmails David into murdering Emily, but she turns the tables and kills the intruder with a meat thermometer to the neck. When the face beneath the ski mask is not David's, Steven has to deal with his suspecting wife, David who is now blackmailing him, as well as mounting financial problems. There is a tender scene when Emily surprisingly expresses sentiments in Spanish with the detective (Suchet).
--Angry Jim Magin, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 20%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 40%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 40%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1980's-1999
Crime & Police Story?
Yes
Taboo Sex Story?
Yes
Kind of story:
- adultery
Criminal enemy is...
- crazed boy/girlfriend/spouse
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- trader
Age:
- 40's-50's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- aggressive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- blonde
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn, straight
Body type
- very skinny (woman)
How much in movie?
- 90%-100%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- thief/con artist
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 60%
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- muscular (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Setting
City?
Yes
City:
- New York
Misc setting
- fancy mansion
- prison
- moving train
- building
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- gory visuals of deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- excited
How many deaths in film?
- 3-4
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- sex under blankets
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 2 ()
Kind of violence:
- guns
- knives
Unusual forms of death
- impaled
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
Is this movie based on a
- play
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