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Release Date:
6 October 1995 (USA)
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Tagline:
All she wanted was a little attention. more
Plot:
Suzanne Stone is an aspiring TV personality who will do anything to be in the spotlight- including enlisting 3 teenagers to kill her husband. full summary | add synopsis
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Awards:
Won Golden Globe.
Another 6 wins
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9 nominations
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(49 articles)
Their Best Role: Nicole Kidman in 'To Die For'
(From Cinematical. 29 November 2009, 2:33 PM, PST)
Beautiful, Fabulous and Evil: 10 Favorite Female Villains!
(From The Movie Fanatic. 17 November 2009, 3:22 AM, PST)
(From Cinematical. 29 November 2009, 2:33 PM, PST)
Beautiful, Fabulous and Evil: 10 Favorite Female Villains!
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90's Masterwork
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Nicole Kidman | ... | Suzanne Stone Maretto |
 | Matt Dillon | ... | Larry Maretto |
 | Joaquin Phoenix | ... | Jimmy Emmett |
 | Casey Affleck | ... | Russel Hines |
 | Illeana Douglas | ... | Janice Maretto |
 | Alison Folland | ... | Lydia Mertz |
 | Dan Hedaya | ... | Joe Maretto |
| Wayne Knight | ... | Ed Grant |
 | Kurtwood Smith | ... | Earl Stone |
 | Holland Taylor | ... | Carol Stone |
 | Susan Traylor | ... | Faye Stone |
| Maria Tucci | ... | Angela Maretto |
 | Tim Hopper | ... | Mike Warden |
| Michael Rispoli | ... | Ben DeLuca |
| Buck Henry | ... | Mr. H. Finlaysson |
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Rated R for strong sexual content, and for language.
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Runtime:
106 min | Argentina:110 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
Certification:
Iceland:12 |
South Korea:18 |
Philippines:R-18 |
Argentina:16 |
Australia:MA |
Finland:K-15 (DVD rating) |
Finland:K-16 (original rating) |
Germany:12 |
Peru:14 |
Portugal:M/16 |
Singapore:M18 |
Spain:13 |
Sweden:15 |
UK:15 |
USA:R
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The story is set in New Hampshire, but filming took place almost entirely in and around Toronto. Torontonian director David Cronenberg appears in a cameo ("man at the lake").
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Continuity: Printed photo images of Suzanne and Jimmy, shown later in the movie, don't match their poses in the photo booth.
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Suzanne Stone Maretto:
You know Mr. Gorbachev, the guy that ran Russia for so long? I am a firm believer that he would still be in power today if he had had that ugly purple thing taken off his head.
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Features "Larry King Live" (1985)
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GODANGINUTA
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Gus Van Zant's wildly original take on the pursuit of fame at any price is a gruesome black comedy that works flawlessly on every level. Van Zant comes at his story from the viewpoint of a series of narrators who see through media lusting Susan Stone Marretto as she stops at nothing to bask in it's spotlight. The media in turn is more than willing to accommodate.
Nicole Kidman as Susan is intimidating beyond the screen as she narrates much of her story into the camera. In addition to her remarkable seductive charm being put to use she also intimidates with a convincing icy coldness. She is the bold and the beautiful and Kidman is perfect to the role.
Having bullied her way into a job as a weather forecaster at a small audience cable station Susan never stops shooting higher. She enlists three aimless high schoolers in a plot to kill her husband so as to unburden her to pursue her career. With sex as a tool it is easy to convince the moronically dim Jimmy who masturbates to her late night forecasts to come on board. The three teens Joaquin Phoenix, Casey Affleck and Allison Foland are uniformly brilliant particularly Phoenix as the clueless doomed Jimmy. Her husband Larry (Matt Dillon)it might be said is in the same boat. Dillon along with Ileana Douglas and Wayne Knight fill out the solid supporting cast as narrators and victims of Susan.
Buck Henry's biting script shows he has not lost his edge since his Graduate days. Director Van Zant's vision of a fin de siecle cross section of America is brutal and original. From those laboring for the American Dream to the bleak Lidsville existence of the teens Die burns with both nervous energy and tragic-comic farce. Accompanied by an all inclusive period music score Vant Zant's wide angle is both brazen and revealing from gaudy colored suburban drab sterility with hints of incest to tragic siding housing and an auto graveyard landscape that serves as a playground to the teens. Told in flash forward and back Van Zant's pace never lingers for a moment as it rapidly presents an in your face comic and tragic pastiche of dark Americana. Van Zant admirably expresses it with a bold visual flair keeping scenes lean and sharp that over a dozen years later still retain there power and energy. It is a vibrant piece of film making and a 90s classic.