{"id":14629,"date":"2021-12-04T20:30:05","date_gmt":"2021-12-05T01:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=14629"},"modified":"2021-12-04T20:23:53","modified_gmt":"2021-12-05T01:23:53","slug":"to-die-for-1995-gus-van-sant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/14629","title":{"rendered":"To Die For (1995, Gus Van Sant)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It simply boggles one with disbelief.&#8221;  I get this movie somewhat confused with <em>Serial Mom<\/em>, but we&#8217;ve got Dan Hedaya here, and Wayne Knight, and That 70&#8217;s Dad, so we&#8217;re gonna be okay.  Nicole Kidman is desperate to get onto TV, and unhappily married to Matt Dillon, so she hires the creep dirtbag youths she&#8217;s filming for an aimless documentary to bump off Dillon (the movie&#8217;s full of fake-doc material, but all the non-doc stuff looks terrific).  Dillon&#8217;s family then hires David Cronenberg to murder Kidman &#8211; it&#8217;s up there with <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/7985\">Last Night<\/a><\/em> in the great DC performances (still need to see <em>Clifton Hill<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>All the thrash metal in this was unexpected.  Van Sant always had an eye for the talented boys &#8211; he launched Joaquin &#8220;Leaf&#8221; Phoenix here, and Casey Affleck (and therefore Matt &#038; Ben), and even better was Alison Folland, who went on to everyone favorite movie about intolerant Nebraskans, <em>Boys Don&#8217;t Cry<\/em>.  The only movie Buck Henry wrote in the 90&#8217;s.  It&#8217;s somewhat fun to watch the dummies do crime and get caught, but I started to turn on the movie, seeing successful filmmakers and actors punching down at suburbanites and their petty dreams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It simply boggles one with disbelief.&#8221; I get this movie somewhat confused with Serial Mom, but we&#8217;ve got Dan Hedaya here, and Wayne Knight, and That 70&#8217;s Dad, so we&#8217;re gonna be okay. Nicole Kidman is desperate to get onto TV, and unhappily married to Matt Dillon, so she hires the creep dirtbag youths she&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[451,2206,91,22,1637,1094],"class_list":["post-14629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1990s","tag-casey-affleck","tag-filmmaking","tag-gus-van-sant","tag-joaquin-phoenix","tag-nicole-kidman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14629"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14680,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14629\/revisions\/14680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}