A Perfect Murder (1998)

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Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures

Rating: R

Release Date: Jun 5, 1998

Running Time: 105 mins. (V)

Country Of Origin: United States

starring: Michael Douglas, Gwyneth Paltrow, Viggo Mortensen, David Suchet, Sarita Choudhury, Michael P Moran, Novella Nelson, Constance Towers, Will Lyman, Maeve McGuire

director: Andrew Davis

A Perfect Murder

A playboy husband plots to kill his heiress wife, believing that she's going to run off with her lover and leave him penniless. He persuades the lover to kill her, but he hires someone else to do the deed. The wife kills the intruder, and the lover starts to blackmail the husband, having taped the conversation in which he was hired.

December 8, 2000

Gazing at young wife Emily (Gwyneth Paltrow) undressing in their plush Manhattan apartment, fifty-ish Industrialist Steven Taylor (Michael Douglas) licks his lips and announces, "You're incredible," Duh. But does Steven bounce? Steven is coldblooded, not hot to trot. He needs Emily's money to back up bad investments, so he blackmails artist David Shaw (Viggo Mortensen), Emily's fortune-hunting lover, into killing her.

Sound familiar? It's Hitchcock's 1954 "Dial M for Murder" retooled for the…