To Die For
To Die For is a crime comedy-drama film, based on the novel of the same name by Joyce Maynard. Suzanne Stone (Nicole Kidman) dreams of being a world-famous news anchor. To that end, she marries Larry Maretto (Matt Dillon),...
24 July 1940, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
3 July 1943, New Lisbon, Wisconsin, USA
28 October 1974, San Juan, Puerto Rico
25 July 1965, Quincy, Massachusetts, USA
April 04, 2008
A grotesque black comedy.
January 09, 2007
A mean-spirited satire, told in mock-tabloid style, this film features the best performance of Nicole Kidman to date (better than The Hours for which she won an Oscar), as an amoral small-town girl obsessed with becoming a TV star.
February 12, 2008
A smart and wicked delight
March 11, 2006
Wicked, Wonderful and Wonderously performed
February 09, 2006
If you've hitherto failed to respond to the laid-back oddball appeal of Van Sant's movies, fear not: this is a sharp, consistently funny blend of black comedy and satire on the deleterious effects of television.
February 12, 2008
If, like me, you find things to admire in all of Gus Van Sant's early films, you may be especially gratified by what he's done with a satirical anti-TV script by Buck Henry.
May 20, 2003
An irresistible black comedy and a wicked delight.
February 12, 2008
It's highly recommended.
February 12, 2008
Like Roseanne, Gus Van Sant refuses to compromise his trademark smarty-pants assault on storybook America.
November 10, 2005
Exquisite media satire, as good as "Network" in its way.
February 12, 2008
As Jimmy, the teen sap who falls hard for Suzanne, Joaquin Phoenix is dead-eyed yet touchingly vulnerable -- a mush-mouthed angel.
May 26, 2006
Gus Van Sant directed this sharp black comedy about the obsession with television and celebrity culture.
