A Perfect Murder (1998)
Directed by Andrew Davis
Millionaire industrialist Steven Taylor is a man who has everything but what he craves most: the love and fidelity of his wife. A hugely successful player in the New York financial world, he considers her to be his most treasured acquisition. But she needs more than simply the role of dazzling accessory.
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…the nineteen-year-age gap is “child’s play” (if one will pardon the icky pun) compared to some other ones that Hollywood has paraded (e.g., The Big Sleep, Sabrina, Charade, As Good As It Gets, Entrapment, A Perfect Murder and anything directed by Woody Allen)…
As the young, carefree lover, Olivier Martinez ("Before Night Falls," "Horseman on the Roof") plays the stereotypical role to perfection, but seems like a second-rate Viggo Mortensen (who played the similar part in "A Perfect Murder" and "A Walk on the Moon" and must have been too busy filming the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy to play that sort of part again).
Douglas could be just as famous making the same post–Wall Street movies: Fatal Attraction, The War of the Roses, Basic Instinct, Falling Down, Disclosure, The Game, A Perfect Murder, Traffic.
But Bud's aiming (like Seth) for the quick, easy bucks -- he wants to work for Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas: A Perfect Murder, The Ghost and the Darkness ), who's either a genius financier, if you ask Bud, or a "two-bit pirate," according to Gekko's rival, Sir Larry Wildman (Terence Stamp: The Phantom Menace, Bowfinger ).