Deceiver

1997 · 106 min · EN · R · 6.0 (99 votes)

Dir. Jonas Pate, Josh Pate · Starring Tim Roth, Michael Rooker, Renée Zellweger, Chris Penn, Rosanna Arquette, Karina Logue · Music Harry Gregson-Williams

“There are two sides to every lie.”

MysteryCrimeDramaThriller

The gruesome death of a prostitute brings suspicion on one of her clients, James Wayland, a brilliant, self-destructive and epileptic heir to a textile fortune. So detectives Braxton and Kennesaw take Wayland in for questioning, thinking they can break the man. But despite his troubles, Wayland is a master of manipulation, and during the interrogation, he begins to turn the tables on the investigators, forcing them to reveal their own sinister sides.

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A dark, smoke-filled room where the lines blur between cop and criminal. This is a tense, cynical game of cat and mouse, where the hunter becomes the hunted and everyone has something to hide.

grittytenseunsettlingcynicalsteadyneo-noirproceduralcharacter-drivendeceptionclassmanipulationcorruption

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