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Overall Rank: 5203
Average Rating: 2.6/4
# of Ratings: 74
Theatrical Release Date: 09/27/1995
Language: English
Genre: Comedy, Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Gus Van Sant
Actors: Nicole Kidman, Matt Dillon, Joaquin Phoenix, Casey Affleck, Illeana Douglas, Alison Folland
Plot: A suburban housewife aspires to be a big TV personality and in order to drum up attention she's willing to do anything - including manipulating teens to take out her husband. -- Chris Kavan
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Chris Kavan - wrote on 08/24/2007
One of the few films starring Nicole Kidman that I like because of its wicked satire and black humor. It's a tabloid sleaze story brought to light and, scary enough, seems like it could actually happen.
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MovieAddict - wrote on 03/21/2012
Nicole Kidman plays a sultry TV Weather Girl Suzanne Stone who is desperate to become the big TV star and she'll stop at nothing to see her ambitions fulfilled. She thinks her laid-back loving Italian husband (Matt Dillon) is standing in her way so while working on a video project with high school students she manipulates one of them, a moody teenager Joaquin Phoenix into killing her husband. Phoenix' young accomplices are classmates Casey Affleck and Alison Folland. Lending support to Mr. Dillon's side is his figure-skating sister Illeana Douglas who never liked Suzanne from the inception.
It's pretty much straightforward satire, and you'll either agree with it or dismiss it as clichéd. I go with the former but you can judge for yourself. Nicole Kidman was convincing in her role of …
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