Product Description
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A simple enough question, but how Jonathan McQuarry (EWAN
McGREGOR) answers it will change his life forever. A corporate
auditor adrift in a sea of New York's power elite, Jonathan's
work is his entire life. But a chance meeting with Wyatt Bose
(HUGH JACKMAN), a charismatic corporate lawyer, introduces
Jonathan to a decadent playground for Manhattan's executive upper
crust. For these power brokers, whose eighteen-hour workdays
leave no time for a personal life, there's "The List" - a sex
club, of sorts, where the right cell-phone number and four simple
words ("Are you free tonight?") can lead to an evening's sexual
fulfillment. It's a world of "intimacy without intricacy," as
Jonathan's first conquest (or vice versa) explains to him, and
through The List Jonathan discovers a side of himself that he
didn't know existed. But an affair with a ravishing and
mysterious stranger known to Jonathan only by her first initial
'S' (MICHELLE WILLIAMS), will expose him to yet another world he
never imagined - one of betrayal, treachery and murder.
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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
did) 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 whos taken under the wing of one Wyatt Bose (Hugh
Jackman), a slick, ultra-confident Manhattan lawyer. We know from
jump that Jonathans new best friend isnt 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 Jonathans bleak, lonely life upside down is set in motion.
At first, its 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 isnt enough; when he
meets the blonde beauty known only as "S" (Michelle Williams),
the clubs 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 neednt be Nostradamus to predict where all of this
is headed, but thats hardly the point. Even if you dont 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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