Product: To Die For (1995)
Rating: 4.0
jet-black comedy
...with lots of very awkward, difficult-to-watch cringe-inducing moments, namely around the totally oblivious Joaquin Phoenix character and Nicole Kidman's ultra-bubbly proto-Stepford-Wives character. Matt Dillon is excellent as usual, with a strong supporting cast and topnotch camera work from director Van Sant who shows remarkabe discipline by not exploiting the sexual relationship between Kidman and Phoenix like lesser directors would have.Best of all it's full of ruthless satire, Kidman does an amazing job. Not sure if I'd particularly want to watch it more than maybe twice though, it's very plot-driven, most of the characters are not very well developed.