Malice (1993)

Set in Massachusetts, a recently married couple (Nicole Kidman, Bill Pullman) are in need of money so they rent a room in their Victorian house to a hot shot doctor (Alec Baldwin) newly arrived in their college town. There's also a serial rapist terrorizing the town. Co-written by Aaron Sorkin (A FEW GOOD MEN) and directed by Harold Becker (THE ONION FIELD). An enjoyable thriller with a few twists and turns although the serial rapist subplot turns out to be a red herring to distract us. The "twists" keep on coming and coming until till you almost need a score card to keep up. All three lead actors get to display very different aspects of their characters and all three do it convincingly. Well, as convincingly as a potboiler (even one as good as this one) will allow them. I certainly don't want to mislead anyone by overpraising it but if you're a fan of thrillers, you should find much to enjoy here. With Anne Bancroft, George C. Scott, Gwyneth Paltrow, Peter Gallagher, Bebe Neuwirth and Josef Sommer.