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Name: To Die For (1995)
Released: 1995-9-22
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Joaquin Phoenix, Matt Dillon, Casey Affleck, Illeana Douglas

To Die For (1995)

R
1h 46m
1995

88%

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Suzanne Stone (Nicole Kidman) has always dreamed of being on TV and she's dead-set on making that dream come true. But there is just one obstacle: Larry Maretto, her husband (Matt Dillon). So, Suzanne convinces a love-struck teenager (Joaquin Phoenix) to get Larry out of the way for good. TO DIE FOR is the most critically acclaimed comedy of the year.

Director:

Gus Van Sant

Producer:

Laura Ziskin

Writer:

Buck Henry

Cast:

Nicole Kidman, Joaquin Phoenix, Matt Dillon, Casey Affleck, Illeana Douglas, Alison Folland

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

88%

Critics Consensus: Smart, funny, and thoroughly well-cast, To Die For takes a sharp - and sadly prescient - stab at dissecting America's obsession with celebrity.

Reviews

The Blu Spot

Jeff Beck

Boasts an impressive cast that includes three future Oscar winners and a tale of unbridled ambition that could've made for a riveting experience, but sadly it's all undone by a rather inexplicable, puzzling structure that reveals far too much too early.

In the way it cavorts with teen melodrama, black comedy, and docu-realism to reflect Suzanne’s contradictory masks, To Die For is a comic precursor to Gus Van Sant’s Elephant.

March 22, 2024

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Battleship Pretension

Scott Nye

The more I revisit the film, though, it’s Joaquin Phoenix and Alison Folland as James and Lydia, the teens most closely involved with Suzanne, who really give it its exceptional shape.

The film, adapted by Buck Henry from Joyce Maynard’s novel, is smartly structured, but Van Sant’s touch is uncertain: the story’s satirical bite begins to loosen as his camera lingers more and more on the disaffected teen-agers.

Furiously paced and sharply funny, To Die For doesn't try for subtlety; its laughs are delivered with self-consciously heavy hands.

December 27, 2022

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