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Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: DECEPTION (DVD MOVIE)
EAN: 0024543526216
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 23, 2008
Running Time: 107 minutes
Sales Rank: 7216
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
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Description:
An accountant is introduced to a mysterious, sex-dating club known as The List by his lawyer friend. He becomes enthralled in this new lifestyle, but he soon becomes the prime suspect in a womanâ??s disappearance and a multimillion-dollar heist.
Amazon.com:
With its attractive cast and 'stylish thriller' vibe, Deception is a much better movie than a raft of negative reviews might suggest--provided that you can suspend (if not completely discard) your disbelief and go along for the ride. The first feature by veteran commercial director Marcel Langenegger, it stars Ewan McGregor as Jonathan McQuarry, a mousy freelance tax auditor who’s taken under the wing of one Wyatt Bose (Hugh Jackman), a slick, ultra-confident Manhattan lawyer. We know from jump that Jonathan’s new best friend isn’t all, or even any, that he seems, and sure enough, when the pair 'accidentally' switch cell phones, a series of credibility-defying events destined to turn Jonathan’s bleak, lonely life upside down is set in motion. At first, it’s all good, as the wide-eyed young CPA finds himself joining 'The List,' a Wall Street sex club that brings together lawyers, stockbrokers, and other professionals whose lives are too busy for anything more than brief, anonymous assignations at various high-rent hotels (exchanging real names is verboten is this world). But apparently spending nights with the likes of Natasha Henstridge and Charlotte Rampling isn’t enough; when he meets the blonde beauty known only as 'S' (Michelle Williams), the club’s credo of 'intimacy without intricacy' goes out the window, lust turns to love, and Jonathan is drawn into a protracted cat-and-mouse game that leads to murder, big-time corporate embezzlement, identity switches, and other nefarious activity. One needn’t be Nostradamus to predict where all of this is headed, but that’s hardly the point. Even if you don’t buy a single moment of it, Deception is fun, flashy, and entertaining--and since when is pure escapism a bad thing? --Sam Graham
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Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Trying Oh So Hard to be Noir
With a cast like this, how could you go wrong? Well, start with a script so full of holes it would pass as a substitute for Swiss cheese and then add characters so incredibly one dimensional that they bore you to tears. Mix in a little passionless acting and you have a recipe for dud.
There is no depth here...not in the plot or the characters or the direction. It is clear that the director was trying very hard to create a modern day noir, but without firm characters and a believable ... Read More
Rating:  - Deception So Transparent
Perhaps I am not the only one who thinks any films with such names as Hugh Jackman and Ewan McGregor is always worth seeing. Moreover, one notable thing about "Deception" is that the film is co-produced by Hugh Jackman himself. You can see why he was attracted to the role he plays in this film - here Hugh Jackman plays a type of character he is not usually associated with - but I still don't see what part of the film's generic script he found so attractive.
A meek accountant Jonathan (Ewan ... Read More
Rating:  - its aw-ite
Michelle Williams is very pretty, but too skinny to suit me. Ewan McGregor is always good. I don't personally care much for Hugh Jackman. The story is pretty far-fetched. It also definately felt like I'd seen it all somewhere before. "Derailed" is similar but much better in every way. Don't get me wrong, it's not a total waste of time. It just could've been a lot mo betta.
Rating: - This Is Not A Thriller
Even if the title were changed, so as not to give away the rehashed plot, this film remains a predictable drama, with terrible acting, poor casting, no suspense or surprises, and an ending that is unbelievably bad. The sex is poorly staged and photographed and the director is entirely to blame for this booring film. Do not buy it, don't even rent it. Rent Femme Fatale to see what a really good thriller is all about.
Rating: - Looks good but it'll give you bad indigestion.
In the fast corporate world of America, business is just business and entanglements are annoying hindrance.
However, if you're Jonathan McQuarry, you won't think so. He wants complications; he wants all the trouble and hindrances he can get. But it ain't exactly easy even though, seemingly on the outside, he is a well-adjusted and successful man. In reality, he is an awkward, lonely accountant, who craves companionship but doesn't have the confidence to chase after it.
While on ... Read More
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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: DECEPTION (DVD MOVIE)
EAN: 0024543526216
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 23, 2008
Running Time: 107 minutes
Sales Rank: 7216
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: 2008