Top cast:Tom Cruise,Cuba Gooding Jr.,Renée Zellweger
Director:Alice Rohrwacher
Genre:Game-Show
Region:Mexico
Year:2013
Storyline:After walking Lindsey home, Laurie found blood-splattered Annie bleeding to death at the foot of the stairs, and ordered Lindsey to run and call the police.Other copy-cat husband/wife sleuthing comedies were also inspired, such as these 1970s-1980s shows:McMillan and Wife(1971-1977), on NBC, with Rock Hudson and Susan Saint JamesHart to Hart(1979-1984), on ABC, with Robert Wagner and Stefanie PowersRemington Steele(1982-1987), on NBC, with Pierce Brosnan and Stephanie ZimbalistMoonlighting(1985-1989), on ABC, with Bruce Willis and Cybill ShepherdWoody Allen""s part-homage filmManhattan Murder Mystery (1993)starred the director and Diane Keaton as the Liptons, modeled after the Charles couple.Alec: No, dear, no.Laura: Why are you so sure?Alec: You""re too sane and not complicated.Laura: I suppose it""s a good thing to be uncomplicated, but it does sound a little dull.Alec: You could never be dull.Laura: Do you come here every Thursday?Alec: Yes, to spend a day at the hospital...Do you?Laura: Do I what?Alec: Come here every Thursday?Laura: Oh yes.I do the week""s shopping,...change my library book, have lunch, and generally go to the pictures.Not a very exciting routine but it makes change.Alec: Are you going to the pictures this afternoon?Laura: Yes.Alec: Hmmm, how extraordinary! So am I..Laura: I thought you had to spend all day at the hospital.Alec: Well, between ourselves, I killed two patients by accident his morning...I simply daren""t go back.Laura: Can you be so silly?Alec: Seriously...Would you mind very much if I came to the pictures with you?Laura: Well...Alec: I could sit downstairs.You could sit upstairs.Laura: Upstairs is too expensive......I had no premonitions.I suppose I should have had.It all seemed so natural and so innocent.BackgroundThe Bridge on the River Kwai(1957), the memorable, epic World War II adventure/action, anti-war drama, was the first of director David Lean""s major multi-million dollar, wide-screen super-spectaculars (his later epics includedLawrence of Arabia (1962)andDoctor Zhivago (1965)).Inside the office, he rudely greeted one of the Indian news editors (Iron Eyes Cody) (wearing his long hair pulled back) with the condescending Indian expression: "How!" without any sense of respect for cultural differences.