A Kiss Before Dying

The good things of American life -- money, status, success -- are only a marriage or murder away for the anti-hero in A Kiss Before Dying. Beyond that, however, that's all this film superficially contemplates; any moral ambiguities that it might have pondered about getting ahead in a capitalistic system are lost in a badly constructed plot. Director-screenwriter Dearden, who wrote the script for Fatal Attraction, does a terrible job of making the pieces of the who's-he-going-to-kill-next narrative stick; jumping around with an unnerving frequency, this film self-destructs before your very eyes.