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To Die For is a 1995 satirical black comedy film directed by Gus Van Sant. It stars Nicole Kidman, Joaquin Phoenix and Matt Dillon, with Illeana Douglas, Wayne Knight, Casey Affleck, Kurtwood Smith, Dan Hedaya, and Alison Folland in supporting roles. The plot follows Suzanne Stone, an ambitious New Hampshire woman with dreams of becoming a celebrity, who will stop at nothing until she achieves fame on TV. The film's narrative combines a traditional drama with darkly comic direct-to-camera monologues by Kidman's character, and mockumentary interviews, some tragic, with other characters in the film.
To Die For was written by Buck Henry based on Joyce Maynard's novel of the same name, which in turn was inspired by the story of Pamela Smart, a woman who was convicted in 1991 for being an accomplice in a plot to murder her husband. Henry, Maynard, George Segal, and David Cronenberg appear in cameo roles. The film features original music by Danny Elfman.
The film received praise for its satire of the tabloid media, fame, and the true crime genre. The cast was subject to considerable praise, with Kidman earning the best notices in her career at that point. Kidman was nominated for a BAFTA, and won a Golden Globe Award, a Critics' Choice Award, and a Best Actress Award at the 1st Empire Awards for her performance.
Plot
In the fictional town of Little Hope, New Hampshire, Suzanne Stone is a glamorous and ambitious young woman who has always been obsessed with being on television and aspires to become a world-famous broadcast journalist. She begins a passionate romance with Larry Maretto, an Italian American, of whom her parents disapprove, and the two quickly marry. Despite the differences between their families, the two seemingly settle into married life happily, and Larry promises to support her career ambitions. She uses his family's restaurant business to keep herself financially stable and takes a job as an assistant at WWEN, a local cable station, in hopes of climbing the network ladder. Through relentless persistence, she is eventually promoted to doing the station's evening weather report.
Suzanne goes to a local high school to recruit subjects for a documentary she is producing called “Teens Speak Out.” She immediately attracts two delinquents, Jimmy Emmett and Russel Hines, and befriends Lydia Mertz, a shy and insecure girl who admires Suzanne’s glamor and worldliness. Larry begins pressuring Suzanne to give up her career in favor of helping out at the restaurant and starting a family. As he becomes more insistent, Suzanne views him as an impediment to her desired future and immediately begins plotting his murder. She seduces Jimmy and convinces him to murder Larry by falsely accusing him of abusing her and promising they will have a future together in California once Larry is dead. She also manipulates Lydia into procuring a gun. One night, while Suzanne delivers the evening weather report, Jimmy and Russell break into the Marettos' condo, and Jimmy shoots and kills Larry.
Though Larry's death is ruled the result of a botched burglary, police stumble across a Teens Speak Out clip of Suzanne at their school, which points to her sexual involvement with Jimmy. The teens are arrested and connected to the crime scene. Lydia makes a deal with police to converse with Suzanne while wearing a wire, and Suzanne unwittingly reveals her hand in the murder. However, despite this damning evidence, she argues that the police resorted to entrapment and is released on bail. All the charges against Suzanne are dropped. Basking in the media spotlight, however, Suzanne fabricates a story about Larry being a cocaine addict who was murdered by Jimmy and Russell, his purported dealers. Jimmy and Russell are sentenced to life in prison. Russell gets his sentence reduced while Lydia is released on probation. Meanwhile, Larry's father, Joe, realizes Suzanne was behind his son's death and uses his mafia connections to have her murdered. A hitman lures Suzanne away from her home by posing as a movie studio executive, kills her, and conceals her body beneath a frozen lake.
Lydia tells her side of the story in a televised interview and gains national attention, becoming a celebrity. Janice, Larry's sister who always hated Suzanne, practices her figure skating on the frozen lake where Suzanne's corpse lies.
Cast
Production
= Development and casting
=Joyce Maynard's book To Die For was published in 1992. Maynard loosely based the novel on the facts that emerged during the trial of Pamela Smart, a school media services coordinator who was imprisoned for seducing a 16-year-old student and convincing him to kill her husband. The trial had gained considerable media attention because it was one of the first in the U.S. to allow TV cameras in the courtroom. The book came to the attention of producer Laura Ziskin, who passed it along to Amy Pascal, then an executive vice-president of Columbia Pictures, and the studio bought the rights.
Ziskin pitched the film to director Gus Van Sant, who himself had been interested in working with screenwriter Buck Henry. Van Sant enlisted cinematographer Eric Alan Edwards and editor Curtiss Clayton, his previous collaborators on Drugstore Cowboy, My Own Private Idaho, and Even Cowgirls Get the Blues.
The studio envisioned Meg Ryan in the role of Suzanne Stone, but Ryan felt that playing a villainous character would be too edgy for her romantic comedy image at the time. Nicole Kidman, who had been wanting to return to more auteur-driven projects after working in big-budget films like Days of Thunder and Far and Away, lobbied Van Sant for the role and convinced him she was right for the character. "I knew Gus' work from seeing Drugstore Cowboy at an art cinema in Sydney. Those kind of films were basically my cinematic pull", she said. Others who expressed interest in the role were Patricia Arquette and Ellen DeGeneres. Ultimately, Ryan turned down the $5 million salary offered and Kidman was cast for $2 million.
For the role of Jimmy Emmett, Johnny Galecki, Edward Furlong, and Giovanni Ribisi were considered. Matt Damon read for the part and though he had impressed Van Sant in his audition, he was also considered too old to play a teen and had too much of an "all-American" look. The role went to Joaquin Phoenix, whom Van Sant had known from working with Phoenix's late brother River on My Own Private Idaho. For the role of Russel Hines, Damon recommended Casey Affleck, the younger brother of his best friend, Ben Affleck. A number of actresses including Sandra Bullock, Janeane Garofalo, Jennifer Tilly, and DeGeneres read for the role of Janice Maretto before Illeana Douglas was cast.
= Filming
=The film was primarily shot in the Port Hope area in Toronto. Principal photography took place from March to June of 1994. High school scenes at "Little Hope High" were filmed at King City Secondary School in King City, Ontario, and some actual students of the school were cast as extras.
The honeymoon scenes with Larry and Suzanne were filmed in the Tampa Bay area of Florida.
Reception
= Critical reception
=The film was screened out of competition at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival. To Die For was very well-received by critics, with Nicole Kidman's performance being especially praised. The film holds an 89% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 61 reviews, where the consensus reads "Smart, funny, and thoroughly well-cast, To Die For takes a sharp – and sadly prescient – stab at dissecting America's obsession with celebrity." On Metacritic, it has a weighted average score of 86 out of 100 based on reviews from 23 critics, indicating "universal acclaim."
In her review in The New York Times, Janet Maslin called the film "an irresistible black comedy and a wicked delight" and added, "[it] takes aim at tabloid ethics and hits a solid bull's-eye, with Ms. Kidman's teasingly beautiful Suzanne as the most alluring of media-mad monsters. The target is broad, but Gus Van Sant's film is too expertly sharp and funny for that to matter; instead, it shows off this director's slyness better than any of his work since Drugstore Cowboy ... Both Mr. Van Sant and Ms. Kidman have reinvented themselves miraculously for this occasion, which brings out the best in all concerned."
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times, in a review that awarded the film 3 and ½ out of 4 stars, wrote: "'To Die For' is the kind of movie that's merciless with its characters, and Kidman is superb at making Suzanne into someone who is not only stupid, vain and egomaniacal (we've seen that before) but also vulnerably human. She represents, on a large scale, feelings we have all had in smaller and sneakier ways."
Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle said of Kidman, "[she] brings to the role layers of meaning, intention and impulse. Telling her story in close-up – as she does throughout the film – Kidman lets you see the calculation, the wheels turning, the transparent efforts to charm that succeed in charming all the same ... her beauty and magnetism are electric. Undeniably she belongs on camera, which means it's equally undeniable that Suzanne belongs on camera. That in itself is an irony, a commentary, or both."
The film's focus on the three teenagers who are ensnared by Suzanne's plot also received praise. The Los Angeles Times' Kenneth Turan wrote that Van Sant adds his "trademark absurdist sensibility to the mix as well as an empathy for inarticulate, inchoate teen-agers that turns out to give this film a good deal of its impact". Turan concluded: "The most accurate assault against the media age since 'Network,' 'To Die For's killer lines and wicked sensibility are given added poignancy by the off-center, sensitive performance of Joaquin Phoenix, River's younger brother, the only person more deluded about Suzanne than she is about herself." Peter Travers of Rolling Stone wrote "Folland and Affleck skillfully capture the pang of adolescence among no-hopers."
Katherine Ramsland of Crime Library discussed the film as an example of a work displaying women with antisocial personalities, with Suzanne in particular described as a "manipulator extraordinaire" who harms people through third parties. The character of Suzanne Stone has been described as suffering from narcissistic personality disorder in the scientific journal BMC Psychiatry.
Writing in 2007, Emanuel Levy stated, "mean-spirited satire, told in mock-tabloid style, this film features the best performance of Nicole Kidman to date (better than The Hours for which she won an Oscar), as an amoral small-town girl obsessed with becoming a TV star."
= Box office
=The film grossed $21 million in the United States and Canada and $41 million worldwide.
= Accolades
=American Film Institute recognition:
AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes and Villains:
Suzanne Stone – Nominated Villain
AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs – Nominated
Home media
To Die For was released on VHS following its theatrical release and on DVD on November 10, 1998. It was released on Blu-ray on November 8, 2011. A 4K remaster of the film was released by The Criterion Collection on Blu-ray and Ultra HD Blu-ray on March 26, 2024.
References
External links
To Die For at IMDb
To Die For at Box Office Mojo
To Die For at Metacritic
To Die For at Rotten Tomatoes
To Die For at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
To Die For at the TCM Movie Database
To Die For: You're Not Anybody in America Unless You're on TV – an essay by Jessica Kiang at The Criterion Collection
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To/Die/For (often abbreviated TDF) are a gothic metal band from the town of Kouvola in southeast of Finland, originally assembled in 1993 as a hard rock band under the name Mary-Ann. In 1999, they decided to change their musical style to gothic metal, changing their band name as well. The band disbanded in April 2009, but reformed in July 2009, and played their final concert at John Smith Rock Festival in Finland on 22 June 2016. They reformed once again in early 2020.
History
= Mary-Ann (1993–1999)
=To/Die/For was formed under the name Mary-Ann in 1993. They released two demo EPs, "Mary-Ann" in 1997 and "Deeper Sin" in 1998, before changing name as they modified musical style from heavy metal to gothic metal in 1999. "Deeper Sin" thereby resulted in a record deal with Spinefarm Records.
= All Eternity and Epilogue (1999–2002)
=Their debut album – All Eternity – was released in Finland by the end of 1999, and the band then signed contracts with Nuclear Blast (for Europe) and Pony Canyon (for Japan). Their cover of the Sandra song "In the Heat of the Night" was to be the only single, and together with "Farewell" it was recorded as a music video, and obtained a fair amount of exposure.
In 2000, the band toured Europe together with Dark Tranquillity, Sentenced and In Flames. Bassist Miikka Kuisma quit the band and was replaced by Marko Kangaskolkka, who had played with the band in its early years. "Epilogue", the successor of "All Eternity", was released in 2001, and was followed by a tour with Lacrimosa.
= Jaded, IV and Wounds Wide Open (2003–2009)
=The album Jaded was released in 2003, and is by many fans still seen as the band's best effort. In August of that year, vocalist Jarno Perätalo left the band. He assembled a new band named Tiaga, integrated by former members of To/Die/For. Juha Kylmänen (from For My Pain and Reflexion) then assumed the vocals of To/Die/For. However, in 2004, Jarno Perätalo and the band Tiaga took the name To/Die/For themselves, releasing the fourth album, simply titled IV, in 2005.
On 4 October 2006, To/Die/For released their fifth studio album, Wounds Wide Open. After the promotional tour that stretched to October 2007, the band decided to take a break.
= Samsara, Cult, deaths, split-up and reformation (2009–2016, 2019–present)
=To/Die/For released their sixth album Samsara in 2011, and after spending the following years touring, released their seventh studio album Cult in May 2015. The first single from their album, "Screaming Birds", was released in November 2014. To/Die/For disbanded in July 2016.
Two of the band's former drummers died; Tommi Lillman died on 13 February 2012 after an illness, and Santtu Lonka died on 26 January 2020 with no cause of death revealed.
In January 2020, the band announced they would be reuniting to play at the John Smith Festival at Laukaa in July 2020.
Line-up
Line-up in the "Mary-Ann" era is not included.
= Current members
=Jape Perätalo – vocals, keyboards (1999–2016, 2020–present)
Juppe Sutela – rhythm guitar (1999–2005, 2010–2016, 2020–present)
Joonas Koto – lead guitar (1999–2002, 2005–2009, 2020–present)
Miikka Kuisma – bass (1999–2000, 2020–present)
Kalle Kukkonen – drums (2022–present)
= Former members
=Tonmi Lillman – drums, keyboards (1999–2003, 2009–2010; died 2012)
Marko Kangaskolkka – bass (2001–2004)
Mika Ahtiainen – lead guitar (2002–2005)
Josey Strandman – bass (2004–2011)
Santtu Lonka – drums (2003–2008, 2010–2011; died 2020)
Antti-Matti "Antza" Talala – lead guitar (2005–2014)
Jussi-Mikko Salminen – keyboards (2004–2005, 2010–2014)
Toni Paananen – drums (2008–2009)
Samuel Schildt – bass (2014–2015)
Eza Viren – bass (2011–2014), lead guitar, keyboards (2014–2016)
Matti Huopainen – drums (2011–2016, 2020–2022)
= Guest musicians
=Alexi Laiho – guitar solo on In the Heat of the Night
Kimberly Goss – vocals in All Eternity
Marko Hietala – vocals in Epilogue
Tanya Kemppainen – vocals in Epilogue and Jaded
Anna Lukkarinen – vocals in Jaded
Jonna Imelainen – vocals in Jaded
= Timeline
=Discography
= Studio albums
=All Eternity (1999)
Epilogue (2001)
Jaded (2003)
IV (2005)
Wounds Wide Open (2006)
Samsara (2011)
Cult (2015)
= Compilations
=Epilogue from the Past (2010)
= Singles
=In the Heat of the Night (2000)
Hollow Heart (2001)
Little Deaths (2005)
Like Never Before (2006)
Screaming Birds (2014)
References
External links
Official website
To/Die/For Facebook
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