
Realising his secret girlfriend Dorothy's pregnancy will sour her relations with her ultra-rich father, career-minded Philadelphia student Jonathan Corliss coolly murders her, making it look like suicide. He then moves to New York to woo her twin sister Ellen. All seems to go well for him, although Ellen's continued investigations into what she is convinced was not a suicide forces him to kill again.... (Full plot summary below)
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Realising his secret girlfriend Dorothy's pregnancy will sour her relations with her ultra-rich father, career-minded Philadelphia student Jonathan Corliss coolly murders her, making it look like suicide. He then moves to New York to woo her twin sister Ellen. All seems to go well for him, although Ellen's continued investigations into what she is convinced was not a suicide forces him to kill again.
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| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThis is Matt Dillon's first film since Drugstore Cowboy, and demonstrates again that he is one of the best actors working in movies. He possesses the secret of not giving too much, of not trying so hard that we're distracted by his performance. |
| Chicago TribuneGene SiskelA Kiss Before Dying is not Crime and Punishment. It is pop movie making to be enjoyed without guilt. |
| Urban CinefileAndrew L. UrbanMost unkindly (but amusingly), the 1992 Razzie Awards gave Sean Young both the Worst Actress and Worst Supporting Actress Awards for playing the twins |
| EmpireKim NewmanWhat's missing here though is the novel's trick of being a wonderfully contrived mystery on the surface while underneath lurks an angry and upsetting analysis of class injustice in the USA. |
| Chicago TribuneDave KehrDillon is a potent combination of looks, charm and menace, as he proved in Drugstore Cowboy, but Dearden’s script fails to provide the raw material that would let him go beyond the stereotype. |
| TV Guide MagazineHal LipperDirector-screenwriter Dearden, who wrote the script for Fatal Attraction, does a terrible job of making the pieces of the who's-he-going-to-kill-next narrative stick; jumping around with an unnerving frequency, this film self-destructs before your very eyes. |
| Washington PostRita KempleyWith its waxy color scheme and nonexistent pace, the movie is like an homage to Hitchcock’s worst period. |
| Los Angeles TimesPeter RainerFor those of us who don’t fancy ourselves connoisseurs of badness, A Kiss Before Dying is less than delectable. It’s a real botch-a-thon, and it gets worse as it goes along. |
| User ReviewTigger Rsuch a great film well recoemed to all if you've not seen it yet |
| User ReviewAdam Ethis film is a detective movie, its all about a boyfriend tryin 2 get his girlfriends fortune |