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'''A Perfect Murder''' is a 1998 thriller film, made by Kopelson Entertainment and Warner Bros.. It was directed by Andrew Davis and starred Michael Douglas, Gwyneth Paltrow and Viggo Mortensen. It is a remake of the 1954 Alfred Hitchcock film ''Dial M for Murder'', though the characters of Halliday and Lesgate are combined. The screenplay was by Patrick Smith Kelly based on the play by Frederick Knott.

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Plot summary

Steven Taylor (Michael Douglas) is a Wall Street banker who has risen a long way to achieve his riches. His successful investments and speculations allow him to live an extravagant upper-class lifestyle with his wife, Emily (Gwyneth Paltrow). Emily seems like a devoted, faithful wife, but in reality, she has an affair with a penniless painter, David (Viggo Mortensen). Although she thinks herself safe, Steve knows everything about the affair, and has also been able to uncover the painter’s dark past. One day he pays the artist a visit and confronts him with knowledge about the affair and the fact that Taylor knows about the artist’s prison time and past con games against rich women. All seems lost for the artist… until when Taylor makes him an offer. He is willing to pay $500,000 in cash for the death of his wife. Taylor has already laid out a detailed plan, one which will supply him with a firm alibi and keep the murder from being traced to his wife’s lover. He prepares the final steps and leaves the house that night for a game of cards with friends. When he returns later that night, he finds his wife alive and the masked killer dead in a pool of his own blood. When police officers remove the mask, the killer is not who Steve expected. Before him lies a total stranger…

Cast

★ Michael Douglas as Steven Taylor

★ Gwyneth Paltrow as Emily Bradford Taylor

★ Viggo Mortensen as David Shaw

★ David Suchet as Mohamed Karaman

★ Sarita Choudhury as Raquel Martinez

★ Michael P. Moran as Bobby Fain

★ Novella Nelson as Ambassador Alice Wills

★ Constance Towers as Sandra Bradford

Trivia

★ Viggo Mortensen is an accomplished painter, and all David's artworks are Mortensen's own.

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