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To Die For
To Die For is a 1995 satirical black comedy film directed by Gus Van Sant, and written by Buck Henry based on the novel of the same name by Joyce Maynard, which in turn was inspired by the story of Pamela Smart. It stars Nicole Kidman, Joaquin Phoenix, and Matt Dillon, with Illeana Douglas, Wayne Knight, Casey Affleck, Kurtwood Smith, Dan Hedaya, and Alison Folland as supporting cast. Kidman was nominated for a BAFTA, and won a Golden Globe Award and a Best Actress Award at the 1st Empire Awards for her performance. Her character has been described as suffering from narcissistic personality disorder in the scientific journal BMC Psychiatry.
Plot
Suzanne Stone has always been obsessed with being on television, aspiring to become a world-famous broadcast journalist. She marries Larry Maretto, using his family restaurant business to keep herself financially stable, and takes a job as an assistant at WWEN, a local cable station, in hopes of climbing the network ladder. Through relentless persistence, she's eventually promoted to doing the station's evening weather report.
More details
| author | Buck Henry Joyce Maynard |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | New Hampshire |
| director | Gus Van Sant |
| editor | Curtiss Clayton |
| genre | comedy drama |
| keywords | arrest bail burglary climb cocaine connect crime scene delinquent entrapment even figure skating help hitman italian-american mafia juvenile delinquency kill life in prison movie studio murder obsess probation skate studio executive weather report wire wiretap |
| musicBy | Danny Elfman |
| producer | Laura Ziskin |
| productionCompany | Columbia Pictures Laura Ziskin Productions Rank Film Distributors |
| publisher | BBFC Sony Pictures Releasing |
| recordedAt | Ontario |
| theme | black comedy mafia satirical |