He responds with evidence of Emily's affair with David and accuses him of blackmailing them. They agree to meet at a local deli, where David demands the full $500,000 or he will turn Steven in.Īfter realizing the key on her keychain belongs to the assailant, Emily confronts Steven. Still losing money, Steven receives a call from David, who plays an audio tape of the two discussing the plan to kill Emily. They remove the assailant's mask, the body is not David's. He takes the key from the body and puts it back on Emily's keychain. Steven returns expecting Emily to be dead, but finds the assailant's body. Emily answers in the kitchen and is attacked by a masked assailant, but stabs him in the neck with a meat thermometer.
At his card game, Steven takes a break and uses his cellphone to make a call to an automated bank system, adding to his alibi, while using a second phone to call Emily. David is to use the key, kill her, and make it look like a robbery. Steven hides the door key from Emily's keyring outside the service entrance to their lavish Manhattan co-op apartment. Steven pressures David into murdering Emily for $500,000. He reveals that he knows about the affair, and used his influence to investigate David's real identity as Winston Lagrange, an ex-convict who cons rich women out of their money. Steven arrives at David's studio the next day. Meanwhile, Emily considers leaving Steven while having an affair with painter David Shaw.
When his risky personal investments start unraveling, he intends to access Emily's personal fortune of $100 million to cover his losses. Steven Taylor is a Wall Street financier married to a much younger wife, Emily.
Loosely based on the play by Frederick Knott, the screenplay was written by Patrick Smith Kelly. It is a remake of Alfred Hitchcock's 1954 film Dial M for Murder, though the characters' names have been changed and much of the plot has been rewritten and altered from its original form. A Perfect Murder is a 1998 American crime thriller film directed by Andrew Davis and starring Michael Douglas, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Viggo Mortensen.
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