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Dressed to Kill (1980), directed by Brian De Palma

12/13/2015

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​Psychiatric patient kills the wrong woman (Angie Dickinson) at the wrong time, drawing the ire of her teenage techo-geek son (Keith Gordon) and the pretty hooker (Nancy Allen) who can ID the killer.  Well-directed by De Palma (with a long bravura sequence without dialogue set in New York's Metropolitan Museum), and deeply indebted to Alfred Hitchcock, though unfortunately not in one important respect:  Hitchcock didn't write his own scripts.  This one flounders at the climax, and the foolish denoument is not only overlong but also out of character.  With Michael Caine as a psychiatrist and Dennis Franz as a cop.  The unrated version includes a few more seconds of somewhat more explicit sex, violence, and language, none of which adds anything of any real value to the film.

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