This is a guilty pleasure of mine....
I remember when I saw ads for this, I thought, "LAME! Watered down Hitchcock??" (forgetting that DIAL M FOR MURDER is far from being one of his masterpieces, anyway.) I'm also not huuuuge fans of Paltrow and/or Douglas under most circumstances (though she's excellent in HARD 8 and EMMA), so I ended up seeing it at the dollar movie theater at the tail end of its release....AND I LOVED IT!
Everyone's perfectly cast, and it's the first time I saw Vigo "Dreamboat" Mortensen.
This is also a film with top-notch physical production; it just looks really, really good.
Does anyone else kind of secretly love this movie?
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