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Dead in the Water

  • TV Movie
  • 19911991
  • PG-13PG-13
  • 1h 30m
IMDb RATING
5.2/10
288
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POPULARITY
34,219
1,558
Teri Hatcher and Bryan Brown in Dead in the Water (1991)
ComedyCrimeDrama
Charlie married into money. He's now a successful lawyer with a sexy young secretary/mistress and he wants out. A prenuptial rules out divorce. Is there such a thing as a perfect murder?Charlie married into money. He's now a successful lawyer with a sexy young secretary/mistress and he wants out. A prenuptial rules out divorce. Is there such a thing as a perfect murder?Charlie married into money. He's now a successful lawyer with a sexy young secretary/mistress and he wants out. A prenuptial rules out divorce. Is there such a thing as a perfect murder?
IMDb RATING
5.2/10
288
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
34,219
1,558
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    • Director
      • Bill Condon
    • Writers
      • Harry Whittington(novel "Web of Murder")
      • Eleanor Gaver(teleplay)
      • Robert Seidenberg(teleplay)
    • Stars
      • Bryan Brown
      • Teri Hatcher
      • Anne De Salvo
    Top credits
    • Director
      • Bill Condon
    • Writers
      • Harry Whittington(novel "Web of Murder")
      • Eleanor Gaver(teleplay)
      • Robert Seidenberg(teleplay)
    • Stars
      • Bryan Brown
      • Teri Hatcher
      • Anne De Salvo
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    • 6User reviews
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    Dead in the Water (1991)
    Teri Hatcher, Bryan Brown, Michael Dudikoff, and Marlee Matlin in Dead in the Water (1991)
    Teri Hatcher and Bryan Brown in Dead in the Water (1991)
    Teri Hatcher and Bryan Brown in Dead in the Water (1991)
    Dead in the Water (1991)

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    Bryan Brown
    Bryan Brown
    • Charlie Deegan
    Teri Hatcher
    Teri Hatcher
    • Laura Stewart
    Anne De Salvo
    Anne De Salvo
    • Olivia Deegan
    • (as Anne DeSalvo)
    Veronica Cartwright
    Veronica Cartwright
    • Victoria Haines
    Seymour Cassel
    Seymour Cassel
    • Lt. Frank Vaness
    Pruitt Taylor Vince
    Pruitt Taylor Vince
    • Lou Rescetti
    Anna Thomson
    Anna Thomson
    • Edie Meyers
    Ron Karabatsos
    Ron Karabatsos
    • Mike Welch
    Daniel Reichert
    • Jack Homelin
    Tim Haldeman
    Tim Haldeman
    • Prosecutor
    Tom Wright
    Tom Wright
    • Hotel Clerk
    Ralph Oliver
    • Trial Judge
    Eric Christmas
    Eric Christmas
    • Judge Griffin
    Michael Kaufman
    • Neurosurgeon
    C.H. Evans
    • Lodge Manager
    Jo Farkas
    Jo Farkas
    • Manager's Wife
    Jack Orend
    • Coroner
    Ernie Lively
    Ernie Lively
    • Dignitary
    • (as Ernie Brown)
    • Director
      • Bill Condon
    • Writers
      • Harry Whittington(novel "Web of Murder")
      • Eleanor Gaver(teleplay)
      • Robert Seidenberg(teleplay)
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    Storyline

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    • Quotes

      Charlie Deegan: There are two basic kinds of flies. Those who sponge liquid food from some surface, and those that pierce an animal's skin to suck the blood. Actually, they have a lot in common with people, especially people who are in love... but love can sour, and that's when they turn to me.

    • Connections
      Referenced in Down Memory Lane with Veronica Cartwright (2015)

    User reviews6

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    Top review
    8/10
    In planning to get away with murder you have to reckon with complications, which is the point they always miss.
    Someone wrote a review with the conclusion that this was terrible in every way, and of course it is, but there is more to it than that. First of all, Bryan Brown is like an Australian Michael Caine, and this would have been a superb part for Michael Caine, as he would have added even more subtility like food for afterhought to it. His case is precarious indeed, as he, although a terribly clever attourney and expert on any way of crime, fails to have learred there is no perfect crime. Still he plans it and thinks he will get away with it, which makes him nothing less than a goof. But that's the intrigue.

    There are some women around him, his wife for one, a terrible nightmare of a shrew, and then that secretary, who is only good for sex and carrying around a dark secret to add a bitter aftertaste and aftermath when the time comes, and then there is that terribly vulgar Victoria, whom you learn to hate as much as he does from the beginning, who just wants to eat him up and does it.

    It's a noir, but actually a dark humour noir, the twist to the tale is overwhelming in its marvellous way of turning everything the other way and upside down and topsy-turvy, so that the candidates for his murder list tend to multiply for good reasons, resulting in more murders than anyone had bargained for with some serious gunfire as well. You can't have everything, which Bryan Brown evidently thought he could and therefore made a go for it - and gained much more than he ever could have dreamt of, but only for worse, for no good at all, and that's the karmic lesson of this loathsome morality of the wrong people all doing the wrong things.
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    Details

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    • Release date
      • December 4, 1991 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Web of Murder
    • Filming locations
      • California, USA
    • Production companies
      • Kevin Bright Productions
      • MCA Television Entertainment (MTE)
      • Matrix Alliance Inc.
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 30 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1

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