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Deception
As a corporate auditor who works in a number of different offices, Jonathan McQuarry wanders without an anchor among New York's power brokers. A chance meeting with charismatic lawyer Wyatt Bose leads to Jonathan's introduction to The List, an underground sex club. Jonathan begins an affair with a woman known only as S, who introduces Jonathan to a world of treachery and murder.
2008 · Directed by Marcel Langenegger · 107 min · Thriller · Mystery · Screenplay in the scene database · 20 frames
Tagline
When you're in this world, no one is who they seem, and everyone is playing the game.
Plot
Timid Jonathan McQuarry is an accountant in Manhattan. Late one night, while working on an audit at a law firm, he is befriended by a charismatic lawyer, Wyatt Bose. Taking the subway home, Jonathan has a brief encounter with a blonde woman. Reaching home, he notices a pipe in his bedroom is leaking and leaving a stain.
Jonathan and Wyatt become good friends. Wyatt has business in London for the next few weeks, but accidentally switches cell phones with Jonathan. Jonathan receives a call on Wyatt's phone, from a woman who asks if he is free that night. He agrees to meet her at a hotel bar. When she arrives, they proceed directly to a hotel room and have sex. In the morning, Jonathan realizes that Wyatt must be in an exclusive sex club.
When Wyatt calls the next day, he encourages Jonathan to continue in the club. One encounter is with an older woman, who explains the rules: the initiator pays for the room, no names are exchanged, there is no rough play. Over the next few weeks, he has anonymous sex with several women.
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Crew
- Written by: Mark Bomback
- Cinematography: Dante Spinotti
- Edited by: Christian Wagner, Douglas Crise
- Music: Ramin Djawadi
- Production design: Patrizia von Brandenstein
- Produced by: Arnold Rifkin, David L. Bushell, Denise O'Dell, John Palermo
Cast
- Ewan McGregor as Jonathan McQuarry
- Hugh Jackman as Wyatt Bose
- Michelle Williams as S
- Natasha Henstridge as Simone Wilkinson
- Charlotte Rampling as Wall Street Belle
- Bruce Altman as Lawyer #1
- Andrew Ginsburg as Lawyer #2
- Stephanie Roth Haberle as Assistant Controller
- Dante Spinotti as Herr Kleiner / Mr. Moretti
- Karolina Muller as Waitress
Production
- Country: Spain, United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Dune Entertainment III, KanZaman Productions, MRC, Rifkin-Eberts Productions
- Budget: $25,000,000
- Box office: $18,024,545
- Themes: deception, heist, lawyer
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