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To Die For

Name: To Die For
Director: Gus Van Sant
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Crime
Released: 1995
Rating: 6.6
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Matt Dillon, Joaquin Phoenix, Casey Affleck, Illeana Douglas

Suzanne Stone wants to be a world-famous news anchor and she is willing to do anything to get what she wants. What she lacks in intelligence, she makes up for in cold determination and diabolical wiles. As she pursues her goal with relentless focus, she is forced to destroy anything and anyone that may stand in her way, regardless of the ultimate cost or means necessary.

1995 · Directed by Gus Van Sant · 106 min · Drama · Comedy · Crime · 50 frames

Tagline

All she wanted was a little attention.

Crew

Screenplay: Buck Henry
Cinematography: Eric Alan Edwards
Edited by: Curtiss Clayton
Music: Danny Elfman
Production design: Missy Stewart
Produced by: Laura Ziskin

Cast

Nicole Kidman as Suzanne Stone
Matt Dillon as Larry Maretto
Joaquin Phoenix as Jimmy Emmett
Casey Affleck as Russel Hines
Illeana Douglas as Janice Maretto
Alison Folland as Lydia Mertz
Dan Hedaya as Joe Maretto
Wayne Knight as Ed Grant
Kurtwood Smith as Earl Stone
Holland Taylor as Carol Stone

Production

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America
Language: English
Studios: Columbia Pictures, The Rank Organisation, Laura Ziskin Productions
Budget: $20,000,000
Box office: $21,300,000
Themes: pedophilia, adultery, based on novel or book, winter, obsession, housewife, new hampshire, mafia, newswoman, ice skating

More by Gus Van Sant

Milk — 2008
Elephant — 2003
Gerry — 2002
Paranoid Park — 2007
The Sea of Trees — 2016
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues — 1994
Mala Noche — 1987
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot — 2018
My Own Private Idaho — 1991
Drugstore Cowboy — 1989
Good Will Hunting — 1997
Finding Forrester — 2000

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