Movie
1997
Deceiver is a 1997 American mystery film directed by Jonas Pate and Josh Pate, and starring Tim Roth, Chris Penn, Michael Rooker, Rosanna Arquette, Ellen Burstyn and Renée Zellweger. It won Best Cinematography and Best Screenplay at the 1997 Stockholm Film Festival, and the Special Jury Prize at the 1998 Cognac Police Film Festival.
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The most dramatic moment in any detective film, at least for those viewers who use their brains or want such films to resemble real life, is a police interrogation. Brothers Jonas and Josh Pate have built their 1997 thriller *Deceiver* around such scene. The plot is set in Charleston where high-class prostitute Elizabeth (played by Renee Zellweger) gets brutally murdered and chopped in pieces. Two detectives - educa…More
