A cable-TV weather girl who'll do anything to become a celebrity seduces a high school student and convinces him to kill her go-nowhere husband in this black comedy. Gus Van Sant's sly satire on America's tabloid mentality is loosely adapted from Joyce Maynard's chronicle of the real-life tale of husband-killer Pamela Smart. Read more
| Starring | Nicole Kidman, Matt Dillon, Joaquin Phoenix, Dan Hedaya |
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| Director | Gus Van Sant |
| Genres | Comedy, Thriller |
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He might have gone a bit off recently, but even if the career change and very public meltodwn is for real, we still have some great Joaquin Phoenix film moments to look back on. If his post-2008 beard-sporting and rap-battling antics are indeed an elaborate hoax, however, Phoenix's best years may still be ahead of him. For the moment, let's look back... His Top 10 Films Parenthood (1989) Way before Joaquin Phoenix made a name for himself as an established actor or even begun rapping to the... Read more
If it’s the destiny of every fondly remembered US TV show to come around again in big screen format, then Steve Carell is going to be a busy man. He’s a natural stand in for Don Adams’s bumbling agent Maxwell Smart, just as he was for Paul Lynde as Uncle Fester in Bewitched. I’ll be he could fit into almost any 60s TV show without straining a muscle. Get Smart has already inspired a couple of movies, The Nude Bomb in 1980, and a TV movie, Get Smart, Again! in 1989 – Read more
"Boring, complacent and criminally lucky to have got away with everything so far." That was David Thomson's scathing verdict on Ben Affleck in his "Biographical Dictionary of Film" in 2004. It was Ben's "annus horribilis": the year that his planned wedding to J-Lo fell apart. The year that saw him bounce back from the mortifying Gigli debacle with two more back-to-back duds: Surviving Christmas and Jersey Girl. He was considered such box-office poison his cameo in Elektra wound up on the... Read more