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To Die For
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 2
EAN: 9780767817776
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 076781777X
Label: Sony Pictures
Languages: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 SurroundFrench (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 SurroundEnglish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled),
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
MPN: D73439D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 1
Release Date: November 10, 1998
Running Time: 106 minutes
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: October 06, 1995
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Editorial Review:
If anyone ever doubts whether Nicole Kidman is a good actress, they should immediately be required to watch this outrageously wicked comedy from 1995, for which Kidman deservedly won a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Leading Role. While director Gus Van Sant handles the fact-based satire with razor-sharp precision, Kidman delivers a deliciously devious performance as Suzanne Stone, a small-town New Hampshire housewife who fancies herself the next Barbara Walters, Jane Pauley, Diane Sawyer, and Maria Shriver all rolled up into one meticulously coiffed package. So determined is she to have a successful career on TV that she'll stop at nothing--even the calculated murder of her husband (Matt Dillon)--to get the attention she feels entitled to. To carry out her scheme she recruits some unwitting local teenagers including one boy (Joaquin Phoenix, matching Kidman's excellence) whose infatuation with Suzanne leads to sexual escapades and predictably troublesome consequences. It's a satirical comedy in Van Sant's capable hands, but it's so close to tabloid reality that the film never seems implausible--which only gives it a funnier, more blood-chilling quality of humor. Featuring Illeanna Douglas, George Segal, and Seinfeld alumnus Wayne Knight in memorable supporting roles, this is one of the best comedies of the '90s--especially if you prefer comedies with a decidedly darker edge. --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Pitch perfect example of misguided reasoning's...
I had heard a lot of great things about Nicole Kidman's performance in this black comedy, so many good things that I had to check it out. The problem was that I could never find it anywhere. Then, gloriously, it came on Encore the other night and so I DVR'd it and settled down to take in the gift that is Kidman. What I found was not just Kidman's finest screen performance ever, but quite possible Gus Van Sant's finest film ever. `To Die For' is just that, a film that is to die for. It is funny, ... Read More
Rating: - Underrated classic
Suzanne Maretto (Nicole Kidman) wants to be a star. For her whole life she has focussed on her goal of becoming the next Barbara Walters. The problem is that she's not all that bright and not all that talented, not that she is aware of this. When she perceived that her husband (Matt Dillon) is standing between her and fame, she enlists the help of three teenagers (including Joaquin Phoenix and Casey Affleck), whom she is working with on a documentary, to murder her husband for her.
"To Die ... Read More
Rating: - "To Die For," a Non-Linear Social Satire of Dark Proportion
Nicole Kidman is excellent here as "Suzanne Stone-Maretto," the central hub of a two-hour-long blonde joke called "To Die For" (1995). It just may be Director Gus Van Sant's best film. If the film's darkly straight-faced humor weren't so blantantly bust-out-laughing obvious in its dialogue, the screenplay would be as dark as a noir film with Kidman as the story's femme fatale for everything happening in it. The film's non-linear narrative goes between normal story-line scenes, "afterwords" regarding ... Read More
Rating: - Portrait of a Female Psychopathic Narcissist
To Die For is an excellent, detailed portrait of a female narcissist. This movie is no comedy. If you ever have the great misfortune of tangling with one of these psychopaths, trust me, you WONT be laughing.
Nicole Kidman plays Suzanne Stone, the girl who grows up as the center of her family's never-ending attention, the Golden Child Who Can Do No Wrong. As life goes on, Suzanne hones her manipulation skills, and marries Larry (played by Matt Dillon), who reflects back to Suzanne the image ... Read More
Rating: - GUS VAN SANT, OPUS 5
***1/2 1995. Directed by Gus Van Sant, this film is an adaptation of Joyce Maynard's To Die for. Golden Globe earned by Nicole Kidman. The movie tells the story of Suzanne Stone, a woman who dreams to be on television or at least talked about. As tabloids have never been so read nowadays, there is here a guilty pleasure to replace Suzanne Stone's character by real people. No, I won't tell you any name ! No. Note director David Cronenberg's cameo as a charmer hitman.
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