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To Die For

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To Die For	label	To Die For
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To Die For	comment	To Die For is a 1995 American Black Comedy film directed by Gus Van Sant, adapted by Buck Henry from the 1992 novel of the same name by Joyce Maynard.It is an incredibly dark satire on celebrity obsession. Nicole Kidman stars as Suzanne Stone Maretto, a beautiful and ruthlessly ambitious (if not particularly talented or overly bright) young woman desperate to become a world-famous news anchor â€“ even if she has to commit murder along the way.The supporting cast includes Joaquin Phoenix, Matt Dillon, Casey Affleck, Illeana Douglas, Dan Hedaya, Wayne Knight, Kurtwood Smith, and Holland Taylor.
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To Die For / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
To Die For / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: Screenwriter Buck Henry as Mr. H. Finlaysson. Joyce Maynard (who wrote the novel the movie's based on) as Suzanne's lawyer.
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To Die For / int_1869b4b1	type	Unreliable Narrator
To Die For / int_1869b4b1	comment	Unreliable Narrator: The movie is almost entirely structured around Suzanne talking herself up and describing how much people admire her, intercut with scenes of people contradicting her.
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To Die For / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
To Die For / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: David Cronenberg as a Mafia hitman. George Segal as a conference speaker.
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To Die For / int_1c0ad158	type	SweaterGirl
To Die For / int_1c0ad158	comment	Sweater Girl: One of the only times where Suzanne isn't shown wearing her Consistent Clothing Style of brightly colored skirt suits is when she dances with Jimmy wearing a tight-fitting green sweater. It's heavily implied that this is intentional on her part as she then tells him she's going upstairs to take it off because she's getting sweaty in order to seduce him.
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To Die For / int_1e1afc1b	type	Framing Device
To Die For / int_1e1afc1b	comment	When in prison, Jimmy admits to the interviewer of the documentary that serves as the film's Framing Device that sometimes when he's alone in his cell at night, he thinks of Suzanne and he "jerks off". This only earns him an audible groan from the interviewer to which he apologizes.
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To Die For / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
To Die For / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: The entire plot is played for very dark laughs with Suzanne's ruthless personal ambition contrasting with her own vapidity and the shallowness of her goals.
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To Die For / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
To Die For / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: In the beginning, Suzanne's father says that he was not happy that his daughter married an Italian American because maybe his father was in the mob. In the end, it turns out that he is because he asks a hitman to kill Suzanne. Invoked and discussed with a literal example around Lydia and Suzanne's discussion that Lydia took her mother's gun to threaten her mother's perverted boyfriend. This is the gun that she uses to kill Larry.
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To Die For / int_28a5213a	type	Small Name, Big Ego
To Die For / int_28a5213a	comment	Small Name, Big Ego: Suzanne thinks she's something special. Even though the biggest gig she lands is as a weather reporter for a local cable station, she continues to believe she's the next big thing in television.
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To Die For / int_313c87b3	type	Hollywood Thin
To Die For / int_313c87b3	comment	Hollywood Thin: Suzanne herself obsessively comments on the bodies of others and regards them as fat if they aren't rail-thin.
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To Die For / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
To Die For / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Averted although it didn't look good for Walter when the hitman took him and Suzanne for a ride.
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To Die For / int_3b27cf16	type	Hormone-Addled Teenager
To Die For / int_3b27cf16	comment	Hormone-Addled Teenager: All the teenage boys are extremely dumb with their aggressive horniness. Several boys in the class literally bark at her. Lydia is implied to have a crush on Suzanne, too, though she's much more subtle about it.
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To Die For / int_40b711d5	type	Hair-Contrast Duo
To Die For / int_40b711d5	comment	Hair-Contrast Duo: The blonde, narcissistic Suzanne is contrasted against her apparently unfortunate-looking and awkward sister-in-law Janice and her friend Lydia.
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To Die For / int_4143f84f	type	Leg Focus
To Die For / int_4143f84f	comment	Leg Focus: When Suzanne talks to the class, several horny teenage boys perv over her.
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To Die For / int_423f5a19	type	Killed Offscreen
To Die For / int_423f5a19	comment	Killed Offscreen: Larry's father arranges for a hit to be put out on Suzanne for killing her husband. She's approached by a soft-spoken, friendly hitman who walks her offscreen to kill her. The next and last time we see her, she's floating in a frozen lake.
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To Die For / int_45007296	type	Metaphorgotten
To Die For / int_45007296	comment	Metaphorgotten: When Suzanne is convincing Ed Grant to hire her for his local cable station:
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To Die For / int_47fe2e12	type	Consistent Clothing Style
To Die For / int_47fe2e12	comment	Consistent Clothing Style: In the film, after starting her job at the channel but before starting her affair with Jimmy, Suzanne almost always wears brightly-colored power suits: a skirt and a cropped jacket.
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To Die For / int_48081842	type	The Stinger
To Die For / int_48081842	comment	The Stinger: Janice figure skates triumphantly over Suzanne's icy grave as "Season of the Witch" plays.
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To Die For / int_48c99e19	type	Death by Adaptation
To Die For / int_48c99e19	comment	Death by Adaptation: Suzanne is assassinated by a Mafia hitman and buried in ice as revenge for her husband, Jimmy's, death. In reality, Pamela Smart, who the movie is based on, got caught and convicted for murdering her husband Greg and was sentenced to life in prison without parole.
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To Die For / int_4b0a723c	type	Think of the Censors!
To Die For / int_4b0a723c	comment	Think of the Censors!: Twice: When Suzanne interviews the teenagers in the documentary about their life goals, Russell mocks Lydia by saying that hers is "to fuck the New Kids on the Block", which angers the latternote since she insists that it's really MÃ¶tley CrÃ¼e and causes the former to scold him about his language, saying how the station could be fined and the project could be pulled over it. When in prison, Jimmy admits to the interviewer of the documentary that serves as the film's Framing Device that sometimes when he's alone in his cell at night, he thinks of Suzanne and he "jerks off". This only earns him an audible groan from the interviewer to which he apologizes.
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To Die For / int_524f94d3	type	Rape as Backstory
To Die For / int_524f94d3	comment	Rape as Backstory: Lydia was molested by her mother's boyfriend, a fact which she confides in Suzanne. It's also how Lydia ends up telling Suzanne about her mother's gun.
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To Die For / int_538750e6	type	Hypothetical Casting
To Die For / int_538750e6	comment	Hypothetical Casting: Invoked. In the novel, Suzanne Stone Maretto states she would like to see "that actress that just got married to Tom Cruise in real life" play her in a movie about this. (Kidman went and did in The Film of the Book.)
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To Die For / int_56240281	type	Country Matters
To Die For / int_56240281	comment	Country Matters: Subverted. Janice says that she'd describe Suzanne with a four-letter word beginning with C. The word is "cold".
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To Die For / int_565106b3	type	Women Are Wiser
To Die For / int_565106b3	comment	Women Are Wiser: Very relatively. Suzanne is pretty airheaded (though not exactly stupid), but Lydia is shown to be easily the most intelligent of the group that Suzanne entangles in her plan.
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To Die For / int_56691220	type	Even the Girls Want Her
To Die For / int_56691220	comment	Even the Girls Want Her: Lydia has as much Hero Worship for Suzanne as the boys do. Suzanne, despite her general stupidity, actually does pick up on this and mentions Lydia's "lesbian tendencies" when trying to bully the girl.
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To Die For / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
To Die For / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: Subverted. The criminals are completely incompetent and the police catch on to them immediately. The police can also see through Suzanne's Stepford Smiler Act. Unfortunately, the most solid proof that Suzanne is the mastermind of the crime is ruled inadmissible in court, so they cannot convict her.
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To Die For / int_599f943f	type	Karma Houdini Warranty
To Die For / int_599f943f	comment	Karma Houdini Warranty: The cops gain evidence on Suzanne via Lydia wearing a wire but her lawyer gets it declared inadmissible in court because it was acquired through entrapment. Then the acquitted Suzanne goes too far by painting Larry as a drug addict which causes his father to order a hit on her.
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To Die For / int_6056f853	type	Homoerotic Subtext
To Die For / int_6056f853	comment	Homoerotic Subtext: Lydia seems to be just as entranced by Suzanne as Jimmy and Russell.
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To Die For / int_648fe274	type	But for Me, It Was Tuesday
To Die For / int_648fe274	comment	But for Me, It Was Tuesday: In the novel, Suzanne tries to seduce a network executive to get a job. Years later, the guy says that so many ambitious, unqualified women who want to be on TV come after him that he has absolutely no memory of the specific incident with Suzanne, but can speculate about how it went.
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To Die For / int_6ae4dedd	type	The Unfair Sex
To Die For / int_6ae4dedd	comment	The Unfair Sex: Averted with the heartless character of Suzanne.
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To Die For / int_6ae754f4	type	Hidden Wire
To Die For / int_6ae754f4	comment	Hidden Wire: The police gives Lydia a miniature microphone in order to get evidence that Suzanne is the silent partner of her husband's murder.
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To Die For / int_6ec4232f	type	Casting Gag
To Die For / int_6ec4232f	comment	Casting Gag: In the novel, Suzanne Stone Maretto mentioned wanting Nicole Kidman to play her in a movie. Kidman went and did.invoked
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To Die For / int_6f0fd7b8	type	Everyone Loves Blondes
To Die For / int_6f0fd7b8	comment	Everyone Loves Blondes: Suzanne is viewed as being extremely beautiful and has blonde hair.
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To Die For / int_7c9dcc1	type	THeUnfavorite
To Die For / int_7c9dcc1	comment	The Unfavorite: Suzanne appears to get a lot more attention from her parents than her sister does.
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To Die For / int_815d5a99	type	The Three Faces of Eve
To Die For / int_815d5a99	comment	The Three Faces of Eve: The three main female characters. Sociopathic Femme Fatale Suzanne is the seductress due to her widely accepted sex appeal (and sleeping with Jimmy). Larry's sister Janice is the wife, as a more grounded, family-orientated, and domestic person. The sole girl in Jimmy's group, Lydia, is the child, both because of her age and because she naively hero-worships Suzanne.
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To Die For / int_819b6384	type	Sympathetic Murderer
To Die For / int_819b6384	comment	Sympathetic Murderer: Suzanne is convinced she's one. The reality is otherwise. Jimmy can be seen as one by audience members. It helps that, unlike Suzanne, Jimmy shows that he's conflicted up until the moment he commits the murder and appears remorseful about what he has done. A second-hand example with Larry and Janice's father Joe; after realizing that Suzanne was responsible for his son's death, he has her whacked by a mob hitman as revenge.
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To Die For / int_83a903f6	type	Stepford Smiler
To Die For / int_83a903f6	comment	Stepford Smiler: Rarely are Suzanne's smiles real.
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To Die For / int_898ff050	type	Villain Protagonist
To Die For / int_898ff050	comment	Villain Protagonist: Suzanne, a heartless murderess, is the protagonist (and narrator).
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To Die For / int_8b5801b2	type	Talk Show Appearance
To Die For / int_8b5801b2	comment	Talk Show Appearance: While the film has a good portion of it told through a documentary and flashbacks, another portion has both Suzanne and Larry's parents being interviewed on a national talk show and their varying viewpoints of their children's lives, their marriage and the tragedy.
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To Die For / int_8df19151	type	Bouquet Toss
To Die For / int_8df19151	comment	Bouquet Toss: Subverted when bridesmaids Janice and Suzanne's sister deliberately ignore Suzanne's tossed bouquet.
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To Die For / int_8e4a0f15	type	Dumb Blonde
To Die For / int_8e4a0f15	comment	Dumb Blonde: Played With. While Suzanne clearly lacks book smarts and general self-awareness, she is fairly gifted at manipulation and intimidation (or at least, picking the right people to manipulate and intimidate).
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To Die For / int_90b66e22	type	Femme Fatale
To Die For / int_90b66e22	comment	Femme Fatale: Suzanne's sex-oriented manipulations and generally dark actions definitely paint her as this. See The Vamp below.
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To Die For / int_9cbf01d6	type	Stay in the Kitchen
To Die For / int_9cbf01d6	comment	Stay in the Kitchen: Larry wants Suzanne to do this instead of pursuing her career. It's what gets him killed.
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To Die For / int_9e1e14ea	type	Ambition Is Evil
To Die For / int_9e1e14ea	comment	Ambition Is Evil: Suzanne's maniacal desire to make it on TV leads her to murder.
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To Die For / int_9ee065ab	type	Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday
To Die For / int_9ee065ab	comment	Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday: Suzanne manipulates Jimmy and Russell to kill Larry on their first anniversary. Jimmy's murder plays out over an ostensibly Coincidental Broadcast of Suzanne wishing him a happy anniversary live on air.
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To Die For / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
To Die For / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: In keeping with Suzanne's lack of sympathy for consequences, she goes straight from having a serious conversation with Jimmy convincing him to kill Larry to dancing to "Sweet Home Alabama".
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To Die For / int_a65288e2	type	Ascended Extra
To Die For / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: Janice, Larry's sister, is given many more scenes in the film than in the book.
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To Die For / int_a8decb95	type	Favors for the Sexy
To Die For / int_a8decb95	comment	Favors for the Sexy: Suzanne and Jimmy. And truly dark favors.
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To Die For / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
To Die For / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Suzanne becomes very alarmed when her boss tells her that the police confiscated the videotapes she made with her accomplices.
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To Die For / int_b034d333	type	Film Noir
To Die For / int_b034d333	comment	Film Noir: PlayedFor Black Comedy. Suzanne's the Femme Fatale, and Jimmy's the sap. The crime is murder of her husband.
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To Die For / int_b537784e	type	Fauxlosophic Narration
To Die For / int_b537784e	comment	Fauxlosophic Narration: Suzanne - played for laughs.
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To Die For / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
To Die For / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Suzanne exhibits a lot of airheaded moments throughout the film, but probably the most egregious case is agreeing to meet a man alone, in the middle of nowhere, who claims to be a studio executive without any credentials to back that up, and following him underneath a bridge to an icy lake where... sure enough, he kills her.
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To Die For / int_b63a4507	type	High-Powered Career Woman
To Die For / int_b63a4507	comment	High-Powered Career Woman: Parodied. Suzanne is a weather reporter who is extremely ambitious, arrogant, and single-minded, being convinced that she's going to be a huge success.
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To Die For / int_b8e3f20a	type	Demoted to Extra
To Die For / int_b8e3f20a	comment	Demoted to Extra: Several characters (such as Suzanne's sister and the parents of Jimmy, Russell, and Lydia) have far more scenes in the novel.
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To Die For / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
To Die For / int_bb18a227	comment	It's All About Me: Psychologists agree that Suzanne is eligible for a diagnosis of narcissistic personality disorder. Playing "All By Myself" at her husband's funeral was a poor choice. At the family dinner party, when Larry's sister begins talking about herself and her recent success, Suzanne looks visibly annoyed to have everyone paying attention to Janice instead of her.
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To Die For / int_be0ad6b7	type	Used to Be a Sweet Kid
To Die For / int_be0ad6b7	comment	Used to Be a Sweet Kid: The home video of a young Suzanne talking about how she wants to be on TV would be pretty sweet if not for her actions as an adult. Averted in the novel, where she stole a prized family heirloom from her sister out of jealousy as a kid.
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To Die For / int_bee8baee	type	Faint in Shock
To Die For / int_bee8baee	comment	Faint in Shock: Janice faints after learning her brother had been killed.
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To Die For / int_c2393191	type	Show Within a Show
To Die For / int_c2393191	comment	When Suzanne interviews the teenagers in the documentary about their life goals, Russell mocks Lydia by saying that hers is "to fuck the New Kids on the Block", which angers the latternote since she insists that it's really MÃ¶tley CrÃ¼e and causes the former to scold him about his language, saying how the station could be fined and the project could be pulled over it.
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To Die For / int_c5249b29	type	Nice Guy
To Die For / int_c5249b29	comment	Nice Guy: Larry is a very nice guy... mostly.
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To Die For / int_ce165390	type	Casting Couch
To Die For / int_ce165390	comment	Casting Couch: It's strongly implied that Suzanne has sex with a man on her honeymoon because she believes he can help her career. He doesn't.
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To Die For / int_e2d457	type	The Ditz
To Die For / int_e2d457	comment	The Ditz: Most characters actually. Suzanne would be The Ditz in any other movie but next to Larry and Jimmy...
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To Die For / int_e34400ab	type	Ambiguously Gay
To Die For / int_e34400ab	comment	Ambiguously Gay: Lydia worships Suzanne to romantic levels, and Suzanne accuses her of being a "perverted lesbian", which also has an implication of Rape and Switch since Lydia was molested by her mother's boyfriend. However, Lydia says that she wants to sleep with MÃ¶tley CrÃ¼e, but it's left ambiguous if she's just saying that to avoid coming out to her class.
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To Die For / int_e4b69188	type	Very Loosely Based on a True Story
To Die For / int_e4b69188	comment	Very Loosely Based on a True Story: Was inspired by the real-life Pamela Smart case.
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To Die For / int_e4f48a7f	type	The "Fun" in "Funeral"
To Die For / int_e4f48a7f	comment	The "Fun" in "Funeral": Downplayed at Larry's funeral; it's not funny to anyone in attendance, but Suzanne actually plays a cassette tape of Eric Carmen's version of "All By Myself" at the graveyard, to the shocked/confused faces of the other attendees, including the priest presiding over it.
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To Die For / int_e69efe7f	type	Lysistrata Gambit
To Die For / int_e69efe7f	comment	Lysistrata Gambit: Suzanne threatens to stop having sex with Jimmy to force him to murder her husband. She threatens to start a relationship with Russel if he does not obey.
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To Die For / int_eae41a	type	The Vamp
To Die For / int_eae41a	comment	The Vamp: Played With; Suzanne has the ruthlessness and the looks but lacks the brains to pull it off properly — her 'seduction' and 'manipulation' are hilariously ham-fisted and obvious. Luckily her targets are even dumber than she is.
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To Die For / int_edc96065	type	Mister Muffykins
To Die For / int_edc96065	comment	Mister Muffykins: Larry gives Suzanne a Pomeranian which she calls "Walter" (after Walter Cronkite). She later tells Jimmy that she cannot divorce because Larry would take Walter away from her.
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To Die For / int_f621e657	type	Hollywood Pudgy
To Die For / int_f621e657	comment	Hollywood Pudgy: Invoked. Suzanne tells Larry that he he's developing a "tire" around his middle and he's "getting fat" while they're at a pool party. He is not fat, but it's conflicted since Suzanne herself is an Unreliable Narrator.
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To Die For / int_feac0f90	type	Ephebophile
To Die For / int_feac0f90	comment	Ephebophile: Suzanne grooms and has sex with a fifteen-year-old Jimmy, though it's left ambiguous whether she's genuinely attracted to him or just exploiting him to kill her husband. More clearly, while her relationships with them are platonic, she also prefers the company of his friends and schoolmates Russell and Lydia over most adults (in addition to possible hero worship).
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Pretty Persuasion	seeAlso	To Die For
StepfordSmiler	seeAlso	To Die For
To Die For	hasFeature	And the Rest / int_d9d6f3fe
To Die For	hasFeature	Films of 1995â€“1999 / int_d9d6f3fe
To Die For	hasFeature	High-Powered Career Woman / int_d9d6f3fe
JoaquinPhoenix	seeAlso	To Die For
To Die For	hasFeature	Killed Offscreen / int_d9d6f3fe
To Die For	hasFeature	Narcissist / int_d9d6f3fe
To Die For	hasFeature	Talk Show Appearance / int_d9d6f3fe
To Die For	hasFeature	White Void Room / int_d9d6f3fe

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