A Kind of Murder
Dreams of adultery and homicide in suburban New York, 1960
The year is 1960. Successful architect Walter Stackhouse (Patrick Wilson) and his beautiful but psychologically unbalanced wife, Clara (Jessica Biel), live unhappily together in suburban New York. Walter fantasizes about a bohemian young woman he meets (Haley Bennett) and of killing Clara, to the point of obsessing about another man who is suspected of murdering his wife. Then Clara suspiciously dies, and Walter is pursued by a police investigator (Vincent Kartheiser). It’s all part of a sexually seething and guilty stew created by the great Patricia Highsmith—A Kind of Murder, directed by Andy Goddard, is based on Highsmith’s novel, The Blunderer. Some other recent Highsmith adaptations: Carol, The Two Faces of January and The Talented Mr. Ripley. The movie opens in theaters on December 16; watch the trailer, above.
