Claudio Carvalho
In Little Hope, New Hampshire, the beautiful and hot Suzanne Stone (Nicole Kidman) wants to be famous and is an aspiring TV personality. She marries Larry Maretto (Matt Dillon), whose father owns a restaurant, and convinces him to use this savings for the university buying a Mustang for her and a condo. Then she accepts to work for the local station receiving minimum wage to develop her own projects, including one with youths in a public school. She meets the punks Jimmy Emmett (Joaquin Phoenix), Russel Hines (Casey Affleck) and Lydia Mertz (Alison Folland) and records hours of tapes interviewing them. When Larry invites her to work at the restaurant in a talent show that he wants to implement, Suzanne sees a threat to her planned career and decides to get rid of her husband. She seduces Jimmy and convinces him that she is in love with him. Then she tells that Larry is a brutal man and Jummy decides to kill him. What will happen to Larry?"To Die For" is a great tale of ambition and manipulation. Gus Van Sant uses the documentary style to show a beautiful and sexy woman that uses her limited intelligence and her body to reach what she has planned for her career. The cast has great performance and Nicole Kidman is perfect in the role of Suzanne Stone. The screenplay has a sort of black humor and the conclusion is ironical. My vote is seven.Title (Brazil): "Um Sonho Sem Limites" ("A Dream Without Limits")
Predrag
"To Die For" is a great little gem of a movie that, in my opinion, ranks as one of the best dark comedies of the 1990s. Nicole Kidman, in one of her finest performances, is stunning as Suzanne Maretto - her maiden name is Stone - a completely self-absorbed, amoral, and utterly ruthless young woman who will let nothing stand in the way of her obtaining her goal of being a "television news star". The film is shot in the style of a slightly wacky TV documentary, which only adds to the fun, as we see the "post-tragedy" interviews with those who were involved with the late Miss Stone. Stone is an attractive but cold-blooded blonde in a small New England city who is desperate to become a celebrity on a national TV News Network.Other inspired performances include George Segal in a splendidly cynical cameo, succinctly summarizing TV business reality. But the real sleeper is Illeana Douglas, narrator and Ms. Stone's sister-in-law. She smells a rat long before anyone else, and her wise-acre sarcastic delivery is terrific, especially as she gracefully skates over the evidence. That's cold! The movie seemed to move all over the place at points for no logical reason. Because of the somewhat jarring approach the ending seemed to be a forgone conclusion. This movie, featuring an unnerving performance by the late River Phoenix, was chilling, haunting, beautiful, and absolutely brilliant. Van Sant is certainly capable of greatness, and Kidman is also.Overall rating: 9 out of 10.
tombstoneangel
An irresistible Nicole Kidman is the soul of this interesting movie, filmmaker Gus Van Sant develops his argument with timing jitter, manages adding intelligence and a sense of mischievous humor to a universal proposition; the obsession with fame, career success at all costs, and the frantic ambition in the media, everything arises in the form of satire; Suzanne Stone-Maretto is a beautiful woman who shows determination and not allow anything or anyone to be an obstacle in his way; this young woman is capable of carrying out an assassination plan to meet its goals, is a villain, an evil, allowing other people out injured, this lady finally marries Larry even though she is not of that form family, Suzanne mentality is not that of an understanding woman; during the development of the plot Larry becomes a nuisance to Suzanne, and our villain knows that option should I choose to get rid of Larry.The film focuses directly on the wishes of Suzanne shows us a catalog of strange characters, is explained as we were his relations with the villain, the film is accompanied by the exhilarating music of Danny Elfman, film editor Curtiss Clayton does its job very well, the entire film conveys freshness, Nicole Kidman is brilliant in this movie, all the characters contribute to the development of the plot, the whole complex is very well calculated as Suzanne shares, To Die For is a funny movie, this kind of entertainment makes you think about the media, the integrity of the people, all that is moral and ethics; This film production transpires magnetism, I personally see it often causes me so fascinating, that if refined comedy, no vulgar humor, plus a heartfelt message about fame, and a dangerous way to succeed without considering the consequences arise.To Die For is a clever film about the brutal obsession with fame, this movie is perfect.
AaronCapenBanner
Gus Van Sant directed this sly satire starring Nicole Kidman as ambitious but cold-hearted woman named Suzanne Stone, who has plans on becoming a television star and news anchor, and will do anything to make that happen. When she realizes that her husband Larry(played by Matt Dillon) is holding her back, she concocts a scheme to use teenage admirer Jimmy(played by Joaquin Phoenix) to murder Larry, and uses the promise of sex to accomplish this. What she didn't count on was the determination of Larry's father(played by Dan Hedaya) and sister(played by Illeana Douglas) to avenge his death... Nicole Kidman is stunning, delivering a believable(and sexy) performance, and the whole cast is fine. Quite funny yet also tragic look at wasted lives is also an ironic commentary on fame, and what people are willing to do to get it.
AD
