Movie Name: A Perfect Murder Casting By: Michael Douglas - Steven Taylor Gwyneth Paltrow - Emily Bradford Taylor Released: June 5, 1998 Genre: Thriller Runtime: 108 min. Rating: R Director(s): Andrew Davis Producer(s): Arnold Kopelson, Anne Kopelson, Peter Macgregor-Scott, Christopher Mankiewicz Writer(s): Patrick Smith Kelly Distribution: Warner Bros. U.S. Box Office: $67,549,705 Country: US Language: English
Movie Review
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.
A powerful husband (Douglas) learns of his wife's affair, and hires her lover (Viggo Mortensen) to kill her.