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English. Budget. $10 million [1] Box office. $19 million. Deathtrap is a 1982 American black comedy suspense film based on the 1978 play of the same name by Ira Levin. It was directed by Sidney Lumet from a screenplay by Levin and Jay Presson Allen, and stars Michael Caine, Dyan Cannon and Christopher Reeve.
Mar 19, 1982 · Deathtrap: Directed by Sidney Lumet. With Michael Caine, Christopher Reeve, Dyan Cannon, Irene Worth. A struggling playwright invites a young writer to his home to discuss a script, but the meeting spirals into a deadly game of deception and betrayal.
- (15K)
- Comedy, Crime, Mystery
- Sidney Lumet
- 1982-03-19
Deathtrap (1982) Rated PG. "Deathtrap" is a wonderful windup fiction machine with a few modest ambitions: It wants to mislead us at every turn, confound all our expectations, and provide at least one moment when we levitate from our seats and come down screaming. It succeeds, more or less.
Without giving away too much, Sidney Lumet's Deathtrap is a Sleuth-like thriller confined primarily to one location and involves murder, deception, and more than its fair share of clever twists.
- (19)
- Sidney Lumet
- PG
- Michael Caine
Summaries. A Broadway playwright puts murder in his plan to take credit for a student's play. To make Sidney's slump all the more painful, Clifford Anderson, a student of one of Sidney's writing seminars, has recently sent his mentor a copy of his first attempt at playwrighting for Sidney's review and advice.
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"Deathtrap" is a 1982 dark comedic thriller directed by Sidney Lumet. Full of backstabbing, twists and turns, the film was originally based on a 1978 play written by Ira Levin.
