# La trampa de la muerte (1982)

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**Original title**: *Deathtrap*
**Runtime**: 116 min
**Genres**: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
**Directed by**: Sidney Lumet
**Written by**: Jay Presson Allen
**Starring**: Michael Caine, Christopher Reeve, Dyan Cannon, Irene Worth, Henry Jones, Joe Silver

> *The trap is set... For a wickedly funny who'll-do-it.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Dark Manhattan theater winter rain drumming on pavement a lone typewriter. 
A desperate playwright and his student clash over a script. 
Sidney Lumet directs with dark humor.

**Mood tags**: cerebral, pitch-black, playful

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