A Perfect Murder
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| A Perfect Murder | |
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 A Perfect Murder film poster |
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| Directed by | Andrew Davis |
| Produced by | Arnold Kopelson Anne Kopelson Peter Macgregor-Scott Christopher Mankiewicz |
| Written by | Patrick Smith Kelly |
| Starring | Michael Douglas Gwyneth Paltrow Viggo Mortensen |
| Music by | James Newton Howard |
| Cinematography | Dariusz Wolski |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
| Release date(s) | June 5, 1998 |
| Running time | 108 min. |
| Country | US |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $50-60 million (approx) |
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For other uses of "Perfect murder", see Perfect murder (disambiguation).
A Perfect Murder is a 1998 thriller film, made by Kopelson Entertainment and Warner Bros.. It was directed by Andrew Davis and starred Michael Douglas and Gwyneth Paltrow. It is a remake of the 1954 Alfred Hitchcock film Dial M for Murder, though the characters of Halliday and Lesgate are combined. The screenplay was by Patrick Smith Kelly based on the play by Frederick Knott.
Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.
A powerful husband (Douglas) learns of his wife's affair, and hires her lover (Viggo Mortensen) to kill her.
[edit] Cast
- Michael Douglas as Steven Taylor
- Gwyneth Paltrow as Emily Bradford Taylor
- Viggo Mortensen as David Shaw
- David Suchet as Mohamaed Karaman
- Sarita Choudhury as Raquel Martinez
- Michael P. Moran as Bobby Fain
- Novella Nelson as Ambassador Alice Wills
- Constance Towers as Sandra Bradford
[edit] Trivia
- Viggo Mortensen is an accomplished painter, and all David's artworks are Mortensen's own.
