DEATHTRAP

 

 

Michael Caine, Christopher Reeve, Dyan Cannon, Irene Worth

Warner Bros.; Directed by Sidney Lumet

Rated PG; 116 minutes; 1982

 

Sidney Bruhl is a writer in a debilitating slump.  When one of his writing students, Clifford Anderson, sends him a copy of his first playwriting attempt, Bruhl hatches a desperate scheme.  He will lure the unsuspecting student to their home, kill him quietly and claim Anderson’s work as his own.  When Clifford arrives, everyone involved begins to realize things are not what they seem in this quirky mystery.