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Deathtrap (1982)

★ 6.7 · 315 ratings on TMDB

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

Deathtrap poster★ 6.7

A Broadway playwright puts murder in his plan to take credit for a student's script.

DirectorSidney Lumet
CastAl LeBreton, Christopher Reeve, Dyan Cannon, Francis B. Creamer Jr., Henry Jones, Irene Worth
GenresComedy, Crime, Drama
The emergence reading

Deathtrap keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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