9/12/2009

A Kiss Before Dying (1991)

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When Jonathan “Jay” Corliss (Matt Dillon) finds out his rich girlfriend Dorothy (Sean Young) is pregnant. He’d planned to use her to get to her wealthy daddy’s (Max von Sydow) money without the entanglement of a child. Jay murders Dorothy but makes it look like a suicide.

Soon Jay is wooing Dorothy’s identical twin sister Ellen (also played by Sean Young) even though Ellen is sure her sister was murdered and is actively trying to find out who Dorothy’s secret boyfriend was.

Diane Ladd plays Jay’s mother and James Russo as Dan Corelli, the cop and later private investigator who worked the case.

A thriller without a thrill. I didn’t care about any of these characters.

From a novel by Ira Levin. Screenplay and directed by James Dearden.

Run time: 1 hour, 36 minutes

Rated R.

My personal rating: C

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