Synopsis
Suzanne Stone wants to be a world-famous news anchor and she is willing to do anything to get what she wants. What she lacks in intelligence, she makes up for in cold determination and diabolical wiles. As she pursues her goal with relentless focus, she is forced to destroy anything and anyone that may stand in her way, regardless of the ultimate cost or means necessary.
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Cast
- Nicole KidmanSuzanne Stone
- Matt DillonLarry Maretto
- Joaquin PhoenixJimmy Emmett
- Casey AffleckRussel Hines
- Illeana DouglasJanice Maretto
- Alison FollandLydia Mertz
- Dan HedayaJoe Maretto
- Wayne KnightEd Grant
- Kurtwood SmithEarl Stone
- Holland TaylorCarol Stone
Recommandations
- 100
Washington Post
Kidman grabs center stage and never relinquishes the position. Playing mercilessly against her pinup girl image, she's an unforgettable, comic archetype—a more slapsticky corollary to William Hurt's bumbling, handsome newscaster in "Broadcast News." - 100
Film.com
Scathingly hilarious...To Die For could be the "Dr. Strangelove" of its genre, a movie that puts even John Waters' somewhat similar "Serial Mom" in the shade. - 90
Washington Post
Brilliantly written by Buck Henry, "To Die For" works on several levels. As a satire on the American obsession with celebrity and fame, the movie is nuanced and haunting. And for the most part, Van Sant keeps the tone chillingly light and ironic. - 90
Film.com
The cast of To Die For is perfect all around, but Kidman trumps them all with a gutsy, uncompromising performance...It's an audacious performance for a movie that dares to be nasty. - 88
Chicago Tribune
Kidman crafts a characterization of breathtakingly controlled artifice, dead-on timing, dizzyingly precise humor. Her part is a knockout--in every sense of the word. [6 Oct 1995] - 88
USA Today
Not since Tuesday Weld in "Pretty Poison" has an actress so played off her fresh-faced beauty for such pointed black-comic effect. - 80
Variety
Delivers continuous pinpricks of irreverent humor and subversive cultural commentary. - 75
San Francisco Chronicle
The murder plot is a cheap turn that says nothing about the nature of Suzanne's ambition. Without Suzanne's media-obsession as its focus, To Die For becomes just another fairly good black comedy.
