A Kiss Before Dying (1991) on Netflix
R19911h 34mCrimeMysteryThriller
Jonathan Corliss secretly dates Dorothy Carlsson, whose father owns a copper fortune. When Dorothy becomes pregnant, he kills her, stages a suicide, and courts her twin sister Ellen in New York.
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Dorothy Carlsson studies at the University of Pennsylvania and is heiress to the Carlsson copper fortune. Her father, Thor Carlsson, owns the refinery. She keeps her boyfriend, Jonathan Corliss, a secret from her family. The two go to City Hall for a marriage license, but the bureau is closed for lunch. They wait on the roof, and Jonathan pushes her to her death, staging it as a suicide. Thor learns she was pregnant and accepts that story. Her identical twin sister, Ellen, does not.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about A Kiss Before Dying (1991)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- River Phoenix was the producers' first choice to play the killer Jonathan Corliss and was chased with several rising offers, but he kept saying no because he did not connect with the material and thought himself wrong for it. Matt Dillon took the role instead.
- The twin sisters Ellen and Dorothy went through four actresses before the cameras rolled: Diane Lane and Penelope Ann Miller both turned the dual part down, Bridget Fonda was cast and then left over scheduling, and Sean Young stepped in.
- Playing both twins earned Sean Young two Golden Raspberries at the same ceremony, the 12th, as she was voted Worst Actress and Worst Supporting Actress for the one film.
