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Tarfumes.com - Deathtrap
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List Price: $19.98
Our Price: $8.49
Your Save: $ 11.49 ( 58% )
Availability: N/A
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Michael Caine, Christopher Reeve, Dyan Cannon, Irene Worth, Henry Jones
Directed By: Sidney Lumet
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Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786300269736
Format: Color
ISBN: 6300269736
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Release Date: 1998-09-01
Running Time: 116
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1982-03-19
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Editorial Reviews:
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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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Customer Rating:
Summary: One of my favorite movies
Comment: When I have guests, this is a "go to" movie to share. It is played in a stage style, and for a who-done-it, it keeps you guessing until the end.
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Summary: A WICKEDLY FUNNY WHO'LL-DO-IT.
Comment: "What's the point of owning a mace, if you don't use it?" - playwright Sidney Bruhl (Michael Caine) in DEATHTRAP
...You'll stop laughing only long enough to gasp in surprise. The stars are terrific. The atmosphere is thick. The sets are marvelous. The score is wonderful and story is to die for!
The only thing missing is a special edition (that is anamorphic widescreen) with a running commentary from surviving director and stars - Lumet, Caine and Cannon.
DEATHTRAP, a wickedly, stylish, sneaky, cat-and-mouse movie, is a terrific companion piece for anyone who loved the "original version" of SLEUTH.
See it... applaud it... adore it! It is everything you heard and much more.
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Summary: Quite excellent
Comment: Ira Levin's comical mystery "who'll do it" is a joy from start to finish. Michael Caine is excellent as the mystery playwright who'd kill for a hit play. Christopher Reeve matches him all the way as the former student who's just written such a play. Dyan Cannon is amusing as Caine's overly hysterical wife.
While the plot has more twists and turns than you'd like to count, it's all energetically made and well acted and just when you think you've figured it out...guess again.
I'd like to recommend to future buyers to also purchase the wonderful play by Ira Levin. In fact, the only complaint I have with the film is that it didn't use the hilarious ending from the play.
Deathtrap may not be as good as Sleuth but you'll have a heck of a time with it nonetheless.
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Summary: So much talent!
Comment: 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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Summary: It was better the second time.
Comment: The movie based on Ira Levin's play is quite thrilling with two great actors, Caine and Reeves. The only real problem is the structure of the play itself. After a murder is committed in what would be the first act, there is more exposition at the beginning of Act 2, which after all the excitement of Act 1, makes the play and the movie seem boring. Actually a lot is being done in that time, and when viewing it the second time, I realized its importance and wasn't bored. It's a fun film with lots of twists.
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