Deception

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    Deception
    2008

    Synopsis

    As a corporate auditor who works in a number of different offices, Jonathan McQuarry wanders without an anchor among New York's power brokers. A chance meeting with charismatic lawyer Wyatt Bose leads to Jonathan's introduction to The List, an underground sex club. Jonathan begins an affair with a woman known only as S, who introduces Jonathan to a world of treachery and murder.

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    Cast

    • Hugh JackmanWyatt Bose
    • Ewan McGregorJonathan McQuarry
    • Michelle WilliamsS
    • Natasha HenstridgeSimone Wilkinson
    • Charlotte RamplingWall Street Belle
    • Bruce AltmanLawyer #1
    • Andrew GinsburgLawyer #2
    • Stephanie Roth HaberleAssistant Controller
    • Dante SpinottiHerr Kleiner / Mr. Moretti
    • Karolina MullerWaitress

    Recommendations

    • 63

      TV Guide Magazine

      Jackman and McGregor are a delight to watch.
    • 60

      L.A. Weekly

      This vision of Gotham is as fastidious as the cockpit of a BMW. But rather than sell luxury sedans, Deception offers a fantasy even big money can't buy -- Wall Street as a cross between a James Bond adventure and a Victoria’s Secret spread.
    • 50

      Chicago Tribune

      With her arresting, off-kilter look of bruised desire, Michelle Williams ends up being the most interesting aspect of this somber corn.
    • 50

      The A.V. Club

      The dynamic between Jackman and McGregor bears an uncanny resemblance to that of Aaron Eckhart and Matt Malloy from "In The Company Of Men": the cool, suave, experienced philosopher of excess and his weaker, more earnest pupil.
    • 50

      USA Today

      Deception is not the cool, noirish thriller it tries to be. Despite a cast that includes double-crossers Hugh Jackman and Ewan McGregor and Michelle Williams caught in the middle, the film is a yawn.
    • 42

      Seattle Post-Intelligencer

      The film's first-time director, the TV-commercial-trained Marcel Langenegger, is out to emulate Hitchcock with dashes of "Vertigo," "Strangers on a Train" and more. But his homage is uninspired and disconnected, and his film is a bore.
    • 40

      The Hollywood Reporter

      Why Hugh Jackman was so excited by Mark Bomback's script to star and produce the film is as big a mystery as why such talents-on-a-roll as Ewan McGregor and Michelle Williams joined the cast.
    • 40

      Variety

      Strip out Deception's fleeting nudity and what's left is a throwback to "B" movie days -- a thin thriller, burdened by clunky dialogue and prone to telegraphing its twists.

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