A Perfect Murder (1998)


Scotty Dillin           Detective Scott
Michael Douglas         Steven Taylor
Gwyneth Paltrow         Emily Bradford Taylor
Viggo Mortensen         David Shaw
David Suchet            Detective Mohamed Karaman
Sarita Choudhury        Raquel Martinez
Michael P. Moran        Detective Bobby Fain
Novella Nelson          Ambassador Alice Wills
Constance Towers        Sandra Bradford
Will Lyman              Jason Gates
Maeve McGuire           Ann Gates

Directed by:            Andrew Davis
Produced by:            Stephen Brown, Arnold Kopelson, Anne Kopelson


A playboy husband plots to kill his heiress wife, believing that she's going to run off with her lover 
and leave him penniless. He persuades the lover to kill her, but he hires someone else to do the deed. 
The wife kills the intruder, and the lover starts to blackmail the husband, having taped the conversation 
in which he was hired.

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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. 
Brilliant in her own right, she works at the U.N. and is involved with a struggling artist who fulfills 
her emotional needs. When her husband discovers her indiscretion, he sets out to commit the perfect 
murder and inherit her considerable trust fund in the bargain.

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She is sleeping with an artist. Her husband, much older than she, is controlling; plus, he's a rich 
international investor in financial trouble. Then we learn that she's in love with the artist, that she 
has her own fortune, which the artist is possibly more interested in than in her, and that her husband 
has figured out she's having an affair. He approaches the artist with plans for a perfect murder. But 
the best laid plans gang aft a-gley.