A Perfect Murder (1998)
A powerful husband. An unfaithful wife. A jealous lover. All of them have a motive. Each of them has a plan.
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A Perfect Murder rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic
IMDb6.6/10· 96K votes
Rotten Tomatoes55%
Metacritic50%
TMDb6.549/10· 2K votesWith 55% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 6.6/10 on IMDb and 50/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been mixed.
About A Perfect Murder
Millionaire industrialist Steven Taylor is a man who has everything but what he craves most: the love and fidelity of his wife. A hugely successful player in the New York financial world, he considers her to be his most treasured acquisition. But she needs more than simply the role of dazzling accessory.
Cast of A Perfect Murder
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
Will Lyman
as Jason Gates
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Maeve McGuire
as Ann Gates
Stephen Singer
as Effete Man at Met
Laurinda Barrett
as Met Woman #1
A Perfect Murder facts
- Budget
- $60M
- Box office
- $128M
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Audience opinions
What the audience liked
- •Crime thriller with compelling extramarital plot
- •Solid IMDB rating shows audience engagement
- •Blackmail and murder mystery delivers genre satisfaction
What the audience disliked
- •Moderate critical reception across all metrics
- •Adaptation of classic play shows mixed contemporary appeal
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