A rich businessman after knowing that his wife has been cheating on him hires her lover to kill her with a nuanced plan. When the plan goes awry, things go out of hand. What follows next is a series of tense cat and mouse game in this official Dial M For Murder remake.
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Language:
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English
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Running Time:
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108 min
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Rating:
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R
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Release date:
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5 June 1998
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Directed by:
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Andrew Davis
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Produced by:
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Arnold Kopelson
Anne Kopelson
Peter Macgregor-Scott
Christopher Mankiewicz
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Written by:
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Patrick Smith Kelly
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Based on:
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Dial M for Murder by
Frederick Knott
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Starring:
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Michael Douglas
Gwyneth Paltrow
Viggo Mortensen
David Suchet
Sarita Choudhury
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Music by:
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James Newton Howard
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Shot by:
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Dariusz Wolski
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Editing by:
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Dov Hoenig
Dennis Virkler
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Distributed by:
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Warner Bros.
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What’s Hot
- Michael Douglas literally owns his role. With deceit in his eyes, sparkling dialogues and a character that is most likely to be rooted by the viewers, he is the main lynchpin of this entire drama.
- Gwyneth Paltrow plays her character to perfection. Unknown of what’s happening around her, she plays the innocent house wife part as it should be, sparing us the dramatics. Viggo Mortensen plays the ‘lover’ and handles the different shades in his characterization pretty well.
- The screenplay is tight with absolutely no loose ends thus making the whole movie gripping. The dialogues form another major core of this movie. Some of the dialogues are reused in the movie when tables are turned, evoking brilliance onscreen.
- Even when there is a scene with ‘not-so-special’ dialogues in it, the mood created by the lead actors is such that the audience are prepared for something unpleasant that is going to happen later.
What’s Not
- The movie’s screenplay is changed much from the original version and that might disappoint the purists. On the flip side, the movie’s ‘key’ twist is still the same as it was in the original which would make it predictable for the viewers.
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