Dressed to Kill
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Jamie Foxx Bringing Back Wanda Is Nothing New: Here Are Five Other Cross-Dressing Oscar WinnersMichael Caine had not yet won an Oscar when he (SPOILER ALERT) played a cross-dressing killer in Brian De Palma's 1980 thriller "Dressed to Kill." But he had already received two nominations and it would only be four more years until his... In this article: Oscar, Jamie Foxx, Dustin Hoffman, Michael Caine, Tom Hanks, Viola, Gwyneth Paltrow, Martin Lawrence, Dressed to Kill, and Cate Blanchett |
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Wikipedia | November 01, 2009
Brian De Palma
...a fruitful working relationship. De Palma's films can fall into two categories, his psychological thrillers (Sisters, Obsession, Dressed to Kill, Blow Out, Raising Cain) and his other commercial films (Scarface, The Untouchables,...
In this article: Brian De Palma, Hi, Mom!, Greetings, Carrie Snodgress, Robert De Niro, The Untouchables, Carlito's Way, Scarface, and Body Double
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Wikipedia | October 09, 2009
Dressed to Kill (1980 film)
...Brian de Palma. It stars Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson and Nancy Allen . The original music score is composed by Pino Donaggio. The film is marketed with the tagline "Brian de Palma, master of the macabre, invites you to a showing of the...
In this article: Michael Caine, Brian De Palma, Angie Dickinson, and Nancy Allen
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Wikipedia | October 07, 2009
Nancy Allen (actress)
Nancy Anne Allen (born June 24, 1950) is an American actress . Her best-known films are Carrie '', ''Dressed to Kill '', ''Blow Out and the ''RoboCop trilogy ''. She was born in New York City, New York, the youngest of three children of...
In this article: Nancy Anne Allen, Anne Lewis, Carrie White, Brian De Palma, RoboCop, Peter Weller, Craig Shoemaker, and RoboCop 3
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boston.com - Latest TV news | September 30, 2009
On Demand picks
...it triumphantly on screen, with a never-say-die buoyancy that makes Hedwig the Rocky of transexuality. (R; runs through Oct. 29) DRESSED TO KILL Encore on Comcast) Brian De Palma hit his stride with this sensual, provocative, witty...
In this article: Comcast, Brian De Palma, Buoyancy, Encore, Joel Silver, Michael Caine, John Cameron Mitchell, Steven Seagal, and Angie Dickinson
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Wikipedia | September 27, 2009
Rachel Ticotin
...Always Shines for the Cool. (During this period, she also received an onscreen credit as a production assistant on Brian De Palma's Dressed to Kill ''.) Her first big break came in 1981, when she was cast as ''Isabella opposite Paul Newman...
In this article: David Caruso, Rachel Ticotin, New York, ALMA Award, and Ana Lucia Cortez
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Vanity Fair: James Wolcott's Blog | July 27, 2009
Scarface Goes to the Guggie
...set in Germany that took four months to build) that evokes Michael Mann's Heat and Brian De Palma's Scarface, The Untouchables, and Dressed to Kill, and yet, for all its choreographed bullet-spray and trompe l'oeil imagery (the play of real...
In this article: Scarface, Clive Owen, Heat, Michael Mann, Brian De Palma, The International, Tom Sizemore, Naomi Watts, and The Untouchables
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boston.com - Latest movie news | May 16, 2009
Film at the museum
...where Brian De Palma flexes his Steadicam muscles - and Angie Dickinson dances an unknowing pas de deux with her future murderer - in "Dressed to Kill." A bit of museum-movie trivia: The sequence was shot at the Philadelphia Museum of...
In this article: New York, John Updike, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, Joker, How to Steal a Million, Topkapi, Rififi, and Bringing Up Baby
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www.washingtonpost.com | March 05, 2008
Therapy Is Having a Pop Culture Moment
...him one more year and then I'm goin' to Lourdes.") But at least those characters weren't murderers. In Brian DePalma's 1980 horror film "Dressed to Kill," Michael Caine plays a therapist with an alter ego who ends up slashing one of his...
In this article: Charlie Bartlett, Gustin Nash, Woody Allen, Paul Weston, In Treatment, NEW YORK, Manhattan, and Tony Soprano
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Slant Magazine | September 04, 2007
Slant Magazine Film Review: Cruising
...a remarkably cavalier attitude toward a film that, in its day, was essentially accused of sanctioning gay murder in the same sense that Dressed to Kill was thought to justify rape. (Brian De Palma had initially considered adapting Cruising...
In this article: Cruising, William Friedkin, Al Pacino, Brokeback Mountain, Film Review, Slant Magazine, Warner Bros., Larry Craig, Brian De Palma, and Karen Allen
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www.washingtonpost.com | November 05, 2002
'Femme Fatale': Dressed to Overkill
It's also a remarkable sequence in that it's a director imitating himself imitating another director. More than 20 years ago in "Dressed to Kill," De Palma worked up a nearly as impressive dialogue-free half-hour (with Angie Dickinson),...
In this article: Brian De Palma, Femme Fatale, Alfred Hitchcock, Rebecca Romijn-Stamos, Rie Rasmussen, Meryl Streep, Cannes Film Festival, and Vertigo
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Dressed to Kill is a 1980 suspense thriller/horror film written and directed by Brian de Palma. It stars Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson and Nancy Allen. The original music score is composed by Pino Donaggio. The film is marketed with the tagline "Brian de Palma, master of the macabre, invites you to a showing of the latest fashion... in murder." It centers on the murder of a housewife, and the investigation headed by the witness to the murder, a young prostitute, and the housewife’s teenaged son.
The film was the target of some backlash from the gay and transgender communities, who felt that its portrayal of transgender people was misguided and homophobic. The film is rated R by the MPAA and runs at 105 minutes.
- Name:
- Dressed to Kill
- Country of Origin:
- United States
- Release Date:
- June 23, 1980
- Directed By:
- Brian de Palma
- Produced by:
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- Brian de Palma
- George Litto
- Written By:
- Brian de Palma
- Editor:
- Gerard B. Greenberg
- Starring:
- Cinematography:
- Ralf D. Bode
- Music By:
- Pino Donaggio
- Distributed By:
- Filmways
- Length:
- 105 min.
- Language:
- English
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