Malice (1993) Review

When newly married couple Tracy and Andy seem to have a near perfect life, both with good jobs everything will change when she is rushed to hospital and operated on by Jed a Doctor who claims he is on level with God.

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Andy is a Dean at a college and one of his female students is wounded by a serial rapist and he feels the need to try and protect them. While this is going on Jed arrives in town and they just happened to go to High School together, he is now a doctor and he invites him to live with them in their house. Tracy seems to utterly hate this, especially when Jed brings women back to the house and the sex isn’t exactly quiet or hidden. I guess that is our first flag to take on board!

Along with that and the surgery that happens on Tracy by Jed, this is about to irrupt into a big legal battle, but everything is not as it seems and so many different lies become tangled and complex. Parts of the plot are quite obessive, the biggest issue though is that it feels like two different films at times with the two big plots running alongside one another.

This is somewhat of a typical 90s thriller and I was actually quite surprised given the stacked cast that I hadn’t even heard of it before! Which considering this includes Alec Baldwin and I had an obsession with him at one point is quite surprising. I’m not saying rush out and watch it immediately but it has a good main cast with Nicole Kidman and Bill Pullman, then in more supporting roles Bebe Neuwirth, George C. Scott, Anne Bancroft and Peter Gallagher with Gwyneth Paltrow having a small role too.