A Kiss Before Dying

Autumn in a lakeside college town, moored boats creak under a sodium-yellow streetlamp. A son of the middle class slips into the life of a steel heiress through stolen glances and coded letters. Jonathan calculates every touch; Dorothy reads only love before the plunge into dark water. Ellen arrives in a borrowed coat, counting identical buttons along the ragged shore. Every matchbox and lipstick tube now lines a case file. A minor ’90s neo-noir that mistakes glamour for menace.

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James Dearden directed A Kiss Before Dying in 1991. See James Dearden's full filmography, where to start with James Dearden, or where to go after you've seen everything by James Dearden.

A Kiss Before Dying was released in 1991 (EN original-language production), with a runtime of 95 minutes.