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List Price: $9.98 Our Price: $9.98 Features • Color • DVD-Video • Full Screen • NTSC In Theaters : 19 March, 1982 DVD Release : 27 July, 1999 |
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Deathtrap description Man (Christopher Reeve) writes play. Older washed-up hack (the blissfully hammy Michael Caine) covets play. A meeting is arranged in a remote cabin festooned with various sharp objects. To reveal anything more would serve to ruin one of the most wondrously convoluted plots of the '80s and '90s. It's a cerebrum-bending romp from start to finish, with marvelously airtight plotting that simultaneously parodies and honors its genre, and two vibrant, continuously morphing lead performances (pity poor Dyan Cannon's weak-link wife, though, who gets stuck with the shrillest character and worst dialogue of the lot). Based on Ira Levin's long-running play, this adaptation's rhythm is thrown off a bit by director Sidney Lumet's somewhat misguided attempts to open it up for the screen, but the script and performers are so playfully adept that, as one of the characters says, "even a gifted director (which Lumet most certainly is, based on evidence such as Dog Day Afternoon and Network) couldn't hurt it." Delirious, nasty fun that's twistier than a corkscrew and loaded with enough red herrings to keep Flipper fed for a year. --Andrew Wright |
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| It is uncanny how much talent went into this brilliant play converted to movie, from writer, director and actors! There was a twinge of heartbreak seeing Christopher Reeve, but I was thankful for the memory of him on film. The story has so many twists and turns, as well as humor, that it easily comes to life and blossoms into more than just entertainment. When an older, washed-up playwright meets a young writer looking for help to springboard his first play into glory, he doesn't realize that Sidney (played by Michael Caine) loves his play so much that the young man may not leave the cabin alive! Is a literary work worth dying for?
Chrissy K. McVay - Author |
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