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Deceiver

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Deceiver (1997)

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Reviews Counted:25

Fresh:11

Rotten:14

Average Rating:5.4/10

Runtime: 1 hr 46 mins

Genre: Dramas

US Box Office: $0

Synopsis: An underachieving, underemployed, pathologically dishonest, and inestimably brilliant epileptic plays cat-and-mouse games with the two homicide detectives assigned to plumb his mind for a motive... An underachieving, underemployed, pathologically dishonest, and inestimably brilliant epileptic plays cat-and-mouse games with the two homicide detectives assigned to plumb his mind for a motive for the murder and mutilation of a prostitute. [More]

Starring: Tim Roth, Chris Penn, Michael Rooker, Renée Zellweger

Starring: Tim Roth, Chris Penn, Michael Rooker, Renée Zellweger, Ellen Burstyn, Rosanna Arquette, Don Winston, Mark Damon, J.C. Quinn, Jody Wilhelm

Director: Jonas Pate, Joshua Pate

Director: Jonas Pate, Joshua Pate
Producer: Peter Glatzer
Screenwriter: Jonas Pate, Joshua Pate
Composer: Harry Gregson-Williams

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...a sad waste of good talent.

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The brothers are talented filmmakers to watch, but they still need to recognize the fine line between cleverness and excess.

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04/09/05
Robin Clifford
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A tight, terrific little thriller

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Explores some of the varied faces of lying and deception in our society from the inconsequential to the deeply harmful.

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