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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...
- (19)
- Sidney Lumet
- PG
- Michael Caine
Ira Levin's cat-and-mouse Broadway suspense smash about a playwright's deadly game of murder gets diabolically comic screen treatment. 1,204 IMDb 7.0 1 h 56 min 1982. X-Ray PG. Comedy · Suspense · Eerie · Tense.
- 116 min
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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- 116 min
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The play is called Deathtrap, and it is brilliant. Sidney's wife is horrified when he decides to lure the young writer to their East Hampton home in order to murder him and pretend that the play is his own work.
