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This is a guilty pleasure of mine....

posted 7 years ago by Cookie.L.A. (2117)
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I remember when I saw ads for this, I thought, "LAME! Watered down Hitchcock??" (forgetting that DIAL M FOR MURDER is far from being one of his masterpieces, anyway.) I'm also not huuuuge fans of Paltrow and/or Douglas under most circumstances (though she's excellent in HARD 8 and EMMA), so I ended up seeing it at the dollar movie theater at the tail end of its release....AND I LOVED IT!

Everyone's perfectly cast, and it's the first time I saw Vigo "Dreamboat" Mortensen.

This is also a film with top-notch physical production; it just looks really, really good.

Does anyone else kind of secretly love this movie?
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[–] Moviefan225 (255) 7 years ago

Hi Cookie L.A.,

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[–] halomaniac88 (1736) 7 years ago

Can I join

[–] Sandman3 (1450) 6 years ago

The OP asks "Does anyone else kind of secretly love this movie?"

No. I don't secretly love it. I just love it. Good acting, Good story. Some plot twists. Just all around good movie.

[–] SooBee (129) 5 years ago

Yes, and not even secretly. It's one of my favourites, along with Fatal Attraction, What Lies Beneath and Unfaithful.