Movie
1998
A Perfect Murder is a 1998 American crime thriller film directed by Andrew Davis and written by Patrick Smith Kelly. It stars Michael Douglas, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Viggo Mortensen. It is a remake of the 1954 film Dial M for Murder.
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Image The film is a crime thriller film directed by Andrew Davis, it is a remake of Alfred Hitchcock's 1954 film Dial M for Murder, though the characters' names have been changed and much of the plot has been rewritten and altered from its original form. Loosely based on the play by Frederick Knott, the screenplay was written by Patrick Smith Kelly. It stars Michael Douglas, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Viggo Mortens…More
Hollywood achieves a good remake of a classic, albeit with a clear commercial aesthetic./ Hollywood logra un buen remake de un clásico, aunque con una clara estética comercial. A Perfect Murder is a remake of Alfred Hitchcock's 1954 classic thriller, directed by Andrew Davis in 1998, although of course any comparison with the great master of suspense carries a certain risk. In reality, in many ways it differs from t…More
In the 1990s, Alfred Hitchcock's films were seen as great films, but apparently not great enough for Hollywood studios not to remake them. Together with the shot-by-shot remake of *Psycho* came the new and more conventional version of Hitchcock's 1954 classic thriller *Dial M for Murder*. The new version, titled *A Perfect Murder*, was directed by Andrew Davis. The protagonist of the film is Steven Taylor (played by…More
