A Perfect Murder
A remake of the Hitchcock classic dial “M” for murder
- Director: Marc Levin
- Genre:Romance | Thriller
- Runtime:88 minutes
Cast
Michael Douglas : Steven Taylor
Gwyneth Paltrow : Emily Bradford Taylor
Viggo Mortensen : David Shaw
David Suchet : Mohamed Karaman
Sarita Choudhury: Raquel Martinez
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Steven Taylor (Michael Douglas) is a Wall Street hedge fund manager who has risen a long way to achieve his riches. His successful investments and speculations allow him to live an extravagant upper-class lifestyle with his beautiful and much younger wife, Emily (Gwyneth Paltrow). Unfortunately for Taylor, his investments are unravelling, and he knows he is going to need his wife’s personal fortune to maintain his status and lifestyle. Emily seems like a faithful wife, but in reality, she is having an affair with a penniless painter, David (Viggo Mortensen), and is considering leaving her husband.
Although Emily thinks herself safe, Steven knows everything about the affair, and has also been able to uncover the painter’s dark past. He pays the artist a visit and confronts him with knowledge about the affair and the fact that Steven knows about the artist’s prison time and past con games against rich women. He also sees the wedding ring that Emily left. All seems lost for the artist, until Steven makes him an offer. He is willing to pay $500,000 in cash for the death of his wife. Steven has already laid out a detailed plan, which will supply him with a firm alibi and keep the murder from being traced to his wife’s lover.
Steven tells David he will hide his latchkey outside the service entrance to his apartment. Steven will go out for his regular night out, during which his wife usually stays in and takes a bath. David is to sneak into the flat and, at 10 pm when he phones his wife, kill her by bludgeoning her with a frying pan. Steven goes home and makes preparations, taking the latchkey from his wife’s bag and hiding it outside the service entrance as planned. He then convinces his wife to stay in and sets off for his night out.
At 10 pm he phones his wife as planned, and Emily answers the phone. She is then attacked by a masked assailant and fights with him. Finally, she manages to kill the attacker by stabbing him in the neck with a meat thermometer and desperately calls for help. Read more
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