Murder on Spec

2006
5.2| 1h35m| NA| en| More Info
Released: 27 August 2006 Released
Producted By: Front Street Pictures
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Kate Graham believed to have a perfect marriage, but after not touching her for months her husband Duke Fairbanks, who had an affair with her friend Diana Coles, demands a divorce. She waves the prenuptial-fixed sum of nearly a million dollars, so he lets her have the house temporarily while he lives on the yacht; his corpse is found there shortly after. An unknown man who claims he killed Duke 'for her' demands 10% of his vast inheritance. When her gay friend is arrested, without bail, she asks her lawyer to defend him. The killer orders her to have dinner, shakes the Seattle PD detective Paul Tannon, proves he knows her preferences, explains how he set Jim up and doubles his tariff to 20% now she has two lives to pay off. The unknown killer is actually a tax official called Mathis...

Genre

Drama, Crime, Mystery

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Director

Harvey Kahn

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Front Street Pictures

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Alicia I love this movie so much
Cebalord Very best movie i ever watch
AniInterview Sorry, this movie sucks
Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.
doycesub I think that the negative reviews are very accurate and the others are watching a different movie than I am. I'm 38 minutes into it and can't believe the lack of investigation abilities that the "police" in this one have. I don't think they could catch a cold much less a criminal. Why is the person that admitted to the murder able to move about like a ghost and nobody seems to notice him? Why is the Kate Graham character doing her own investigation while the DA (dumb a**) police can follow her but no one else. I hope I make it to the end.the review does not contain enough lines so: I think that the negative reviews are very accurate and the others are watching a different movie than I am. I'm 38 minutes into it and can't believe the lack of investigation abilities that the "police" in this one have. I don't think they could catch a cold much less a criminal. Why is the person that admitted to the murder able to move about like a ghost and nobody seems to notice him? Why is the Kate Graham character doing her own investigation while the DA (dumb a**) police can follow her but no one else. I hope I make it to the end.
canuckteach We watched it - it was a passable time-waster built around a very charming leading lady, Brooke Burns (film a.k.a. 'Trophy Wife').She won't challenge Meryl Streep for acting honors, but this was a low-budget vehicle built around the familiar device of a pretty, but determined, main character under attack by a sinister guy (a hacker, an extortionist, a serial killer, a combo - you choose). She will have to resolve to defeat him herself - there's no 'buddy' waiting to bail her out. In this case, the bad guy extorts money from women who have lost rich, but unpleasant, husbands in 'untimely deaths' - deaths he caused, 'on spec' - that is, on 'speculation' that the women will gladly pay a commission to be rid of the villainous 'ex'. It's not an entirely new idea - Alfred Hitchcock used a similar twist in his old TV mystery show.The difference here is that the villain claims to be able to implicate poor Brooke in the murder-for-hire. That part is stretchy. Nonetheless, the camera work is nifty (reminding me of a Director using tribute-type camera angles to echo the genre), and the gadgetry makes for interesting - if implausible - entertainment.It took me a while to realize that the 'killer' had his victims 'over a barrel' - they paid, instead of going to the Police. No wonder they don't want to talk to Brooke when she starts investigating these cases herself: these 'victims' are complicit in a crime. It's an intriguing kind of 'con' - you can't go to the Police with your story, after you pay. hmmmmmmmmmmmm.While the computer and technical abilities of the perpetrator are strictly sci-fi, we saw a similar device used in a big-budget British mini-series with John Hannah entitled 'Amnesia'. The bad guy's ability to produce phony tech data was essential to moving the plot forward, and building the suspense to a surprising climax. The device isn't as well orchestrated in 'Trophy Wife', but it serves the same purpose: it keeps our hero fighting to get her story believed.Finally: life has a way of imitating art.. as silly as the plot might seem, there are fraud, and murder-for-profit cases in the true-life crime annals that seem stranger than anything we've read in fiction.So, I gave the film a 7 - for the 'heroine-battles-super-bad-guy-B-movie-suspense' genre.
fiore2 I'm sorry, this movie is very bad.I just watched this on Lifetime so I should have known better. As much as I love looking at Brooke Burns, this movie is terrible.Let's start with the screenplay. Horrible. Completely not believable. The whole premise of the story is ridiculous. Could something like this go on? Maybe. But the way the screenplay is written, there's just no way. It's just so outrageous. Actually, it's comical when you watch it. The acting is pretty funny as well.If you want to laugh at bad writing, bad filming, bad screenplay, watch this movie. It should be shown in all filming 101 classes about what NOT to do in film-making.
Killa42 This is was an Okay mystery thriller... aside for a few things:1. The only person that believes that Brooke Burns' character didn't do it is her best friend who knows better... being that he's placed in jail; accused of had been hired to kill her husband, from her. Every single person that she tries to convince that there is a guy out there killing rich husbands and collecting from widows by blackmail: either denies it or calls her crazy. That alone is very unrealistic, if I'd believe her I know that one out of the hundreds of other people that she told in the film might just have given her the benefit of the doubt… but no, rather it's the freaking world against "Kate Graham." I know, its a movie... but something's in film these days are just too blasé. It's sort of like in that show Tru Calling how no one listens to Eliza Dushku's character when she says that she can hear messages from the dead. Even though that was a good show, that part was annoying.2. The killer doesn't even bother to use gloves... ever! They seem to miss this in several movies these days. The fact is that with forensics the way they are you'd think that the newer writers would try a little and place at least gloves on their hairy killers.Aside from that the movie was decent and worth watching.