Movie
To Die For
Black comedy film with a runtime of 107 minutes, released in 1995. Presented in English.
At a Glance
Synopsis
The price of fame is murder -- or at least it is in the mind of one woman in New Hampshire. Suzanne Stone (Nicole Kidman) has spent most of her life wanting to be famous; she's attractive, speaks well, and imagines herself to be intelligent ("imagines" is the key word here), so she has set her sights on becoming a TV anchorwoman. However, opportunities for female broadcasters are hard to come by in Little Hope, New Hampshire, and she's convinced that her husband, the once handsome but now flabby restaurant manager Larry Maretto (Matt Dillon), is just getting in her way. Suzanne gets herself a spot hosting a weather report on a local public access station, and is preparing a documentary called "Teens Speak Out," which puts her in touch with a trio of high school students -- Jimmy (Joaquin Phoenix), Russell (Casey Affleck), and Lydia (Alison Folland) -- who are even more desperate for attention than she is. When Suzanne hatches a plot to get Larry out of her life once and for all, she uses Jimmy, who has developed a serious crush on her, to do her dirty work, but Larry's sister Janice (Illeana Douglas), who has long believed there was something fishy about Suzanne, eventually begins to realize what happened to her brother. Nicole Kidman won a Golden Globe award for her work in this film, which represented something of a comeback for director Gus Van Sant after the commercial and critical disaster of Even Cowgirls Get the Blues. Screenwriter Buck Henry plays a small role as a high school teacher.
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Cast
- Nicole Kidman
- Matt Dillon
- Joaquin Phoenix
- Casey Affleck
- Illeana Douglas
- Alison Folland
- Dan Hedaya
- Wayne Knight
- Kurtwood Smith
- Holland Taylor
- Susan Traylor
- Maria Tucci
- Tim Hopper
- Michael Rispoli
- Buck Henry
- Gerry Quigley
- Tom Forrester
- Alan Edward Lewis
- Nadine MacKinnon
- Conrad Coates
- Ron Gabriel
- Ian Heath
- George Segal
- Graeme Millington
- Sean Ryan
- Nicholas Pasco
- Joyce Maynard
- David Collins
- Eve Crawford
- Janet Lo
- David Cronenberg
- Tom Quinn
- Peter Glenn
- Amber-Lee Campbell
- Colleen Williams
- Simon Richards
- Philip Williams
- Susan Backs
- Kyra Harper
- Adam Roth
- Andrew Scott
- Tamara Gorski
- Katie Griffin
- Carla Renee
- Vlasta Svoboda
- Howard Feuer
- Patricia Green
- Jonathan Taplin
- Sandy Isaac
- Eric Alan Edwards
- Missy Stewart
- Buck Henry
- Curtiss Clayton
- Leslie Morgan
- Beatrix Aruna Pasztor
- Joseph M. Caracciolo
