A Perfect Murder

The Story

A playboy husband plots to kill his heiress wife, believing that she's going to run off with her lover and leave him penniless. He persuades the lover to kill her, but he hires someone else to do the deed. The wife kills the intruder, and the lover starts to blackmail the husband, having taped the conversation in which he was hired.

Cast

Michael Douglas ................... Steven Taylor
Gwyneth Paltrow ..... Emily Bradford Taylor
Viggo Mortensen ...................... David Shaw
David Suchet ................ Mohamed Karaman
Sarita Choudhury .............. Raquel Martinez
Michael P. Moran ...................... Bobby Fain
Novella Nelson ... Ambassador Alice Wills
Constance Towers ............ Sandra Bradford
Will Lyman ................................. Jason Gates
Maeve McGuire ........................... Ann Gates

Emily: "We'll work it out? Let me tell you something, you work it out on your fucking own! This is over!"
Steven: "You're not leaving me, the only way you leave me is dead!"

Steven: "When you wake up tomorrow, all this will seem like a bad dream."
Emily: "What if there is no tomorrow?"

[last lines]
[after listening to the tape of the murder plan]
Emily: [crying] "He... he said he was going to kill me. So I tried to run."
Mohamed Karaman: "And then he attacks you?"
Emily: "Yes."
Mohamed Karaman: "What else could you do?"
[Emily looks at Karaman with gratitude]
Mohamed Karaman: [In Arabic] "May God be with you."
Emily: "And you as well."

David Shaw: "Excuse me sir, can you spare 400 grand?"
Steven: "I don't see why not."
David Shaw: "Excuse me sir, can you spare me 400 grand?"
Steven: "I don't see why not."