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| Deathtrap | 
 enlarge | Director: Sidney Lumet
Actors: Michael Caine, Christopher Reeve, Dyan Cannon, Irene Worth, Henry Jones
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
List Price: $9.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  38 reviews
Sales Rank: 16442
Format: Color, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 116
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 1
Picture Format: Pan & Scan
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.6 x 0.6
MPN: D11256D
UPC: 085391125624
EAN: 0085391125624
ASIN: B00000JGHT
Theatrical Release Date: March 19, 1982
Release Date: July 27, 1999
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
Man (Christopher Reeve) writes play. Older washed-up hack (the blissfully hammy Michael Caine) covets play. A meeting is arranged in a remote cabin festooned with various sharp objects. To reveal anything more would serve to ruin one of the most wondrously convoluted plots of the '80s and '90s. It's a cerebrum-bending romp from start to finish, with marvelously airtight plotting that simultaneously parodies and honors its genre, and two vibrant, continuously morphing lead performances (pity poor Dyan Cannon's weak-link wife, though, who gets stuck with the shrillest character and worst dialogue of the lot). Based on Ira Levin's long-running play, this adaptation's rhythm is thrown off a bit by director Sidney Lumet's somewhat misguided attempts to open it up for the screen, but the script and performers are so playfully adept that, as one of the characters says, "even a gifted director (which Lumet most certainly is, based on evidence such as Dog Day Afternoon and Network) couldn't hurt it." Delirious, nasty fun that's twistier than a corkscrew and loaded with enough red herrings to keep Flipper fed for a year. --Andrew Wright
Description
Ira Levin's cat-and-mouse Broadway suspense smash about a playwright's deadly game of murder gets diabolically comic screen treatment.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 33 more reviews...
 A WICKEDLY FUNNY WHO'LL-DO-IT. March 13, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
"What's the point of owning a mace, if you don't use it?" - playwright Sidney Bruhl (Michael Caine) in DEATHTRAP
...You'll stop laughing only long enough to gasp in surprise. The stars are terrific. The atmosphere is thick. The sets are marvelous. The score is wonderful and story is to die for!
The only thing missing is a special edition (that is anamorphic widescreen) with a running commentary from surviving director and stars - Lumet, Caine and Cannon.
DEATHTRAP, a wickedly, stylish, sneaky, cat-and-mouse movie, is a terrific companion piece for anyone who loved the "original version" of SLEUTH.
See it... applaud it... adore it! It is everything you heard and much more.
 Quite excellent December 3, 2007
Ira Levin's comical mystery "who'll do it" is a joy from start to finish. Michael Caine is excellent as the mystery playwright who'd kill for a hit play. Christopher Reeve matches him all the way as the former student who's just written such a play. Dyan Cannon is amusing as Caine's overly hysterical wife.
While the plot has more twists and turns than you'd like to count, it's all energetically made and well acted and just when you think you've figured it out...guess again.
I'd like to recommend to future buyers to also purchase the wonderful play by Ira Levin. In fact, the only complaint I have with the film is that it didn't use the hilarious ending from the play.
Deathtrap may not be as good as Sleuth but you'll have a heck of a time with it nonetheless.
So much talent! October 18, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
It is uncanny how much talent went into this brilliant play converted to movie, from writer, director and actors! There was a twinge of heartbreak seeing Christopher Reeve, but I was thankful for the memory of him on film. The story has so many twists and turns, as well as humor, that it easily comes to life and blossoms into more than just entertainment. When an older, washed-up playwright meets a young writer looking for help to springboard his first play into glory, he doesn't realize that Sidney (played by Michael Caine) loves his play so much that the young man may not leave the cabin alive! Is a literary work worth dying for?
Chrissy K. McVay - Author
It was better the second time. August 13, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The movie based on Ira Levin's play is quite thrilling with two great actors, Caine and Reeves. The only real problem is the structure of the play itself. After a murder is committed in what would be the first act, there is more exposition at the beginning of Act 2, which after all the excitement of Act 1, makes the play and the movie seem boring. Actually a lot is being done in that time, and when viewing it the second time, I realized its importance and wasn't bored. It's a fun film with lots of twists.
Caine and Reeves - a dead cert July 12, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
How does one go about describing the impact of Michael Caine and Christopher Reeves in this all time great light hearted thriller. I have seen this movie before but somehow the twists and turns of the plot caught me as much by surprise as the first time I viewed it. The acting kept me enthralled up to the last twist of the knife (so to say). I had actually forgotten how the movie ended so was really taken by surprise by the twist. Dyan Cannon as the naive wife who falls victim to treachery is a pleasure to watch. I was a little taken aback by the fact that the two male leads played the role of lovers and was amased that I had not noticed this before. Of course this was just another one of the twists and turns that the added to the highly complecated plot.
Of course a bonus was to see the wonderful Chritopher Reeves in his youthful form displaying the talent which we know he possessed.
This movie is well worth having in you collection as it is really a classic muder mystery plot.
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