To Die For (1995)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.8/10   

Director:

Gus Van Sant

Escritores (WGA):

Joyce Maynard (book)
Buck Henry (screenplay)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

6 octubre 1995 (USA)

Género:

Comedia | Crimen | Drama | Suspenso

Frase comercial:

All she wanted was a little attention.

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.

Plot Keywords:

Television | Hitman | Masturbation | Manipulation | Teacher Student Relationship

Premios:

Won Golden Globe. Another 6 wins & 9 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

This one will stay with you a little bit

Reparto

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

También conocida como:

Todo por un sueño (Argentina) (Spain) [es]

MPAA:

Rated R for strong sexual content, and for language.

Duración:

106 min | Argentina:110 min

País:

UK | USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Relación de Aspecto:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby SR | SDDS

Clasificación:

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

Locaciones de Filmación:

Brampton, Ontario, Canada

Compañía:

Columbia Pictures Corporation

Trivialidades:

According to Joyce Maynard, the book author who played Suzanne's lawyer, she happened to have her mother's ashes on hand during the filming of her scene. Deciding her mother would have wanted to be in the movie, she placed them in her prop briefcase.

Errores:

Errores que Revelan: At the cemetery, a reporter nudges a headstone and it moves.

Citas:

Jimmy: Any time it rains, or when there's thunder and lightning, or when it snows, I have to jack off.

Conexiones de Película:

Spoofs Forrest Gump (1994)

Banda de Sonido:

GODANGINUTA

This one will stay with you a little bit

Clever story with more depth that appears at first blush, directed with irony and a sardonic sense of humor by Gus Van Sant. Nicole Kidman plays an especially shallow TV weather person who gets some grunge kids to kill her husband for her. Her motive is, as Illeana Douglas, who plays the sister-in-law, says, "he got in her way." This is a nice study of narcissism metastasized into psychopathology. She is headstrong, motivated and rather stupid. She thinks only of herself and would do anything for herself and would do anything to anybody who got in her way. And amazingly, she does.

Matt Dillon is wasted as the husband (in more ways than one). I'm surprised he agreed to do the part. Kidman is mesmerizing and makes us believe in a slightly unbelievable character. We've all known narcissistic little darlings who would kill you for the right shade of eye shadow, but to see it acted out so coldly and with such appalling stupidity, yet with a psychology so bizarre that it has to be real, fairly takes your breath away. It was especially apt that she had him killed so that her pointless little docu-drama "Teens Speak Out" could become newsworthy enough for national exposure. Consicously she doesn't realize this: she has no introspection; she just acts.

Also cute is the way the picture is framed: a pseudo-documentary within a pseudo-documentary. Everything is so well orchestrated that when Kidman gets her surprising, but entirely appropriate comeuppance at the end, we are quite pleased.