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Deception (2008) -- An accountant is introduced to a mysterious sex club known as The List by his lawyer friend. But in this new world, he soon becomes the prime suspect in a woman's disappearance and a multi-million dollar heist.

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Release Date:
25 April 2008 (USA) more
Tagline:
When you're in this world, no one is who they seem, and everyone is playing the game.
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An accountant is introduced to a mysterious sex club known as The List by his lawyer friend. But in this new world, he soon becomes the prime suspect in a woman's disappearance and a multi-million dollar heist. full summary | full synopsis
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Cast

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Ewan McGregor ... Jonathan McQuarry

Hugh Jackman ... Wyatt Bose

Michelle Williams ... S

Bruce Altman ... Lawyer #1

Andrew Ginsburg ... Lawyer #2
Stephanie Roth Haberle ... Assistant Controller
Christine Kan ... Tennis Player #1
Dante Spinotti ... Herr Kleiner / Mr. Moretti

Karolina Muller ... Waitress (as Karolina Müller)
Agnete Oernsholt ... Woman at Waldorf Astoria
Melissa Rae Mahon ... Velvet Rope Dancer #1

Rachel Montez Collins ... Velvet Rope Dancer #2
Holly Cruikshank ... Velvet Rope Dancer #3
Deborah Yates ... Tango Dancer
Bill Camp ... Clancey Controller
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Also Known As:
The List (USA) (working title)
The Tourist (USA) (working title)
Untitled Hugh Jackman Project (USA) (working title)
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Rated R for sexual content, language, brief violence and some drug use.
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107 min
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Had a seven-week shoot. more
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Continuity: At the end of the movie when Ewan McGregor's character walks to the Madrid square to meet Michelle Williams' character, in the first shot Ewan wears a white T-shirt under his green V-neck sweater and in the next shots he doesn't. more
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Simone Wilkinson: Are you free tonight?
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100 out of 142 people found the following review useful.
Mostly rubbish, 28 April 2008
4/10
Author: seawalker from Birmingham, England

Two things to say about this film.

Firstly, what an astoundingly rubbish title for a movie. "Deception"??? Oh, come on. Can you think of a more non-committal, less interesting, less imaginative title for a movie? I can't. All thrillers are about deception, of one kind or another.

"Deception" originally went into production under the title "The List". Hmm... Well... OK. I admit it. That title is also pretty bad. Then, "Deception" was going to be called "The Tourist". Now, I kind of like that. Sounds art house and kind of strange. Conjures up images of an observer, an outsider. Somebody not in the loop. In fact, pretty much the character that Ewan McGregor plays.

Secondly, what a completely rubbish movie! OK, maybe not completely rubbish. Just mostly rubbish.

"Deception" is a good 20 minutes too long. After a while it just seems to go on and on. The climax is misjudged and mistimed. The sex is typical Movies 24 soft core erotica, or maybe a Friday night Channel 5 movie from the early Noughties. You know the kind of thing. Soft focus humping to a soundtrack of screaming saxophone driven jazz. (Mind you don't trip over the cliché, there chief!) Also, every plot twist in "Deception" is signposted way in advance. If you don't get at least one of the major plot twists then, frankly, you really should give up watching movies. Pretty lame, pretty dull, pretty bad movie.

I said 'mostly rubbish', so some of it must have been good. Yes?

I did like the film's chilly, European ambiance. I liked the idea of powerful people, too isolated and too busy to develop human relationships. I liked Hugh Jackman's well dressed and cold instigator, Ewan McGregor's lonely accountant and Michelle Williams' bruised vulnerability. I thought all three leads made the most of their underwritten roles, but sadly it was not enough.

There is plenty of space in this world for a good, sexualised thriller (see the original "Basic Instinct"), but sadly "Deception" was nothing like a good sexualised thriller.

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