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'''''A Perfect Murder''''' is a 1998 thriller film starring [[Michael Douglas]], [[Gwyneth Paltrow]], and [[Viggo Mortensen]]. It's a [[Remake]] of the 1954 [[Alfred Hitchcock|Hitchcock]] film ''[[Dial M for Murder]]''.

Steven Taylor is a Wall Street hedge fund manager who has risen his way through riches. He has a faithful wife named Emily. However, unknown to him, she isn't a faithful wife as she is having an affair with a poor artist, David Shaw, and plans to leave him.

Upon discovering the affair, Steven confonts David and exposes him as a con-artist after his and Emily's money, but offers to pay him a substantial amount of money anyway....in exchange for killing his wife.

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* [[Bilingual Bonus]]/[[Cunning Linguist]]: Emily is a translator at the UN and fluent in numerous languages. This pays off when she's able to forge a personal connection with one of the detectives assisting her -- asking about the welfare of his wife and children -- leading him to put in the extra effort to look after her. Later in the film, as she ventures into an inner-city neighborhood, her perfect Spanish similarly impresses the local hoodlums.
* [[Deleted Scene]]: The original ending was that Emily shoots Steven after finding out what he did. His dying words are that the police would know, so she fakes a struggle, and she ends up committing the perfect murder.
* [[May-December Romance]]: Then 25/26-year-old [[Gywneth Paltrow]], with then 54-year-old [[Michael Douglas]].
* [[Modesty Bedsheet]]{{context}}
* [[Plethora of Mistakes]]{{context}}
* [[Thanatos Gambit]]{{context}}
* [[Third-Act Stupidity]]{{context}}
* [[Xanatos Speed Chess]]{{context}}


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[[Category:Films of the 1990s]]
[[Category:Mystery and Detective Films]]
[[Category:A Perfect Murder]]
[[Category:Film Remakes]]
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