| | | Two women. One Man. The combination can be murder.
Features: DVD, Widescreen, Dolby Digital (5.1), Animation, Interactive Menu, Scene Access
Two women, one plan. We'll poison the creep who treats us like dirt, they agree. We'll dump the body in a murky pool, and someone will find a surprise at the bottom. There's a surprise, all right. When the pool is drained and cleaned, no body is found. Sharon Stone and Isabelle Adjani pour on the femme and the fatale in a diabolical grabber of a suspense thriller directed by Jeremiah Chechik (Benny and Joon) and based in part on the classic 1955 French spellbinder Les Diaboliques. Will the women get away with bloody murder? Has someone removed the body of the victim (Chazz Palminteri) and begun playing mind games with them? Add to the mix a tough cookie of a detective (Kathy Bates) and you've got the ingredients for "a nail-biter from the first scene to the last" (Bob Polunsky, KENS-TV/San Antonio).
"Sexy. Stylish. Sharon Stone has never been better." Jim Svejda, KNX Radio, Los Angeles
Editor's Note
In this remake of the French classic, the wife of an abusive school headmaster joins forces with his mistress to do away with him. However, something goes wrong, and the two begin to get the feeling that their victim may not really be dead. When a private investigator becomes involved, the thread begins to unravel.
Plot Summary
Abusive husband Guy Baran is a marked man, for both his wimpy wife Mia, AND his icy mistress Nicole are conspiring to kill him. One night, they put their plan into effect, as they poison Guy, drown him in the bathtub, then dump his body into a mucky swimming pool.| But when the pool is later drained, Guy's body is not there. And a local detective is growing suspicious of Mia and Nicole.| So where is that body? Is someone else involved in Guy's death? Is one murderess trying to frame the other? Or is Guy still alive?
| Features | Widescreen Version | | English Subtitles | | French Subtitles | | Spanish Subtitles | | French Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround | | Animated Interactive Menus | | Scene Access | | Behind-The-Scenes Featurette | | Cast/Crew Bios & Filmographies | | English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: Warner Music |
| Release Date: 6/1/2004 |
| Running Time: 107 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1996 | | Catalog ID: 14204 | | UPC: 00085391420422 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English, French Dubbed, Spanish Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: English, French, Spanish | | Video: Color |
| Cast & Crew
| Memorable Quotes| "Honey, if I couldn't get a man to leave her, I wouldn't kill him. I'd kill myself." ---- Nicole (SHARON STONE), to Shirley (KATHY BATES), a detective who thinks Nicole might have killed Guy (CHAZZ PALMINTERI) because she couldn't have him for herself. | | "Yeah, you're in heaven and I'm the Virgin Mary." ---- Nicole (SHARON STONE) to Mia (ISABELLE ADJANI), after Mia faints and regains consciousness. | | "Oh, come on ---- you can't pull that off." ---- Nicole (SHARON STONE), pulling an unlit cigarette out from the lips of Mia (ISABELLE ADJANI). |
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| | Professional Reviews | Chicago Sun-Times
"...The movie has fun with the usual whodunit details....DIABOLIQUE is so well constructed that even today it works on its intended level..." 02/17/1995 p.37Washington Post 8 of 10
...[an] artful, immensely watchable new thriller... Stone evokes the high bitch style of Bette Davis at her most outrageous. Stone's performance is the glamorous engine that drives this remake, and makes it something more than a passably entertaining mystery yarn... Stone, with her Oscar nomination for Casino and now this, is beginning to make the other modern female stars look like little girls - Hal Hinson
Boxoffice Magazine 7 of 10
Without a lot of contrivances, and with fewer lapses of plausibility than usual for the genre, Diabolique works well as a crafty suspense drama. Designed as a smart noir thriller, it constantly undercuts our expectations and keeps us guessing from start to finish... Sharon Stone is superb... - Thomas Quinn
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