To Die For

Opens Monday, June 2, 2025

Special Events

  • Mon Jun 2 : 

    Q&A with author Joyce Maynard and Rachel Syme (The New Yorker) at 7:00

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30th Anniversary!

Monday, June 2 at 7:00 p.m.: book signing and Q&A with To Die For author Joyce Maynard and Rachel Syme (The New Yorker)

Suzanne Stone (Nicole Kidman) is a weather reporter at her small-town cable station, but she dreams of being a big-time news anchor. However, she feels that her middle-class husband (Matt Dillon) is holding her back, so she decides to have him murdered. For this, she enlists Jimmy (Joaquin Phoenix), a high school boy who is enamored with her. The plan doesn’t work exactly as she intended, though, and her husband’s family starts to suspect that she was involved in his death.

“A smart black comedy that skewers America’s fatal fascination with television and celebrity, it employs an unerring nasty touch to parody our omnipresent culture of fame.” – Los Angeles Times

 

  • Country USA, UK
  • Year 1995
  • Running Time 106 minutes
  • Format DCP
  • Distributor Sony
  • Director Gus Van Sant
  • Cast Nicole Kidman, Matt Dillon, Joaquin Phoenix, Casey Affleck, Allison Folland, Buck Henry
  • Accessibility Assistive Listening, T-Coil

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