A Perfect Murder

A Perfect Murder
A Perfect Murder film poster
Directed by	Andrew Davis
Produced by	Arnold Kopelson Anne Kopelson Peter Macgregor-Scott Christopher Mankiewicz
Written by	Patrick Smith Kelly
Starring	Michael Douglas Gwyneth Paltrow Viggo Mortensen
Music by	James Newton Howard
Cinematography	Dariusz Wolski
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date(s)	June 5, 1998
Running time	108 min.
Country	US
Language	English
Budget	$50-60 million (approx)
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For other uses of "Perfect murder", see Perfect murder (disambiguation).

A Perfect Murder is a 1998 thriller film, made by Kopelson Entertainment and Warner Bros. It was directed by Andrew Davis and starred Michael Douglas and Gwyneth Paltrow. It is a remake of the 1954 Alfred Hitchcock film Dial M for Murder, though the characters of Halliday and Lesgate are combined. The screenplay was by Patrick Smith Kelly based on the play by Frederick Knott.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

A powerful husband (Douglas) learns of his wife's affair, and hires her lover (Viggo Mortensen) to kill her.

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When David is on the telephone in his studio, you can see a Norwegian flag attached to the antenna of the radio standing beside him. (Mortensen has Norwegian ancestry.)

Note: This is incorrect information. Viggo's father is Danish. His mother is American.