Director Gus Van Sant capped off the pre-GOOD WILL HUNTING phase of his career with this delicious ripped-from-the-headlines femme fatale thriller, featuring a trio of future Oscar winners (Nicole Kidman, Joaquin Phoenix, Casey Affleck), a script by Buck Henry and a thrashtastic career-highlight score from Danny Elfman. (TO DIE FOR screens as part of our Knoxville Horror Film Fest Bloody Valentine Bash double feature with Ken Russell’s CRIMES OF PASSION on February 15, followed by a standalone encore February 18.)

Suzanne Stone (Nicole Kidman) is a weather reporter at her small-town cable station, but she dreams of being a big-time news anchor. However, she feels that her middle-class husband (Matt Dillon) is holding her back, so she decides to have him murdered. For this, she enlists Jimmy (Joaquin Phoenix), a high school boy who is enamored with her. The plan doesn’t work exactly as she intended, though, and her husband’s family starts to suspect that she was involved in his death.

“An irresistible black comedy and a wicked delight.” – New York Times

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