Daisy Bates, Ewan McGregor, Frank Girardeau

"Are you free tonight?" A simple enough question, but how Jonathan McQuarry answers it will change his life forever. A corporate auditor adrift in a sea of New York's power elite, Jonathan's work is ...( read more  read more... )his entire life. But, a chance meeting with Wyatt Bose, a charismatic corporate lawyer, introduces Jonathan to a decadent playground for Manhattan's executive upper crust. For these power brokers, whose 18-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', will expose him to yet another world he never imagined--one of betrayal, treachery and murder.

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R, 1 hr. 48 min.

Directed by: Marcel Langenegger

Release Date: April 25, 2008

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DVD Release Date: September 23, 2008

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  • July 15, 2009
    I've seen this movie 100 times before but with different titles.
  • June 8, 2009
    Pretty decent. If it hadn't been for Hugh and Ewan, though, I wouldn't have watched it.


    *SORT OF SPOILERISH*
    I kind of preferred the alternative ending, though I guess the one they went with was in some ways more logical.
  • May 20, 2009
    An very good cast, a good idea but a poor-ish execution only make this an ok thriller. I had high hopes for a lot more but the title alone really gives any idea of a twist away right from the start which was annoying. Hugh Jackman was very good in his role I thought and there are...( read more) some sexy appearances from Natasha Henstridge (Species, Ghost of Mars) and Maggie Q (Die Hard 4). However it is all too straight forward to work out if you have seen any decent thriller before. Ok for a look but nothing special, you might prefer Derailed instead.
  • April 15, 2009
    Another example of when genre-fication (the forcing of otherwise intriguing stories into the straitjackets of horror, thriller or other genres) reduces our entertainment to head-shaking banality. A thin thriller, burdened by clunky dialogue and prone to telegraphing its twists. I...( read more) was able to use my amazing powers of observation to deduce that McGregor's character was being set up. How, you ask? By taking note of the fact that the name of the film is Deception. For fuck's sake.
  • January 20, 2009
    "Are you free tonight?"


    When meek accountant Jonathan (Ewan McGregor) meets slick attorney Wyatt (Hugh Jackman), he's immediately smitten with Wyatt's style, wit, and sophistication. The two quickly become friends, with Wyatt introducing Jonathan to the world of an anonymous...( read more) sex club and assorted debauchery. In this haze of pleasure, Jonathan meets the mysterious S (Michelle Williams) and immediately becomes consumed with her every move. Overwhelmed and now trapped in a net of suspicion from the local police once dead bodies start piling up, Jonathan must fight for his life when Wyatt turns out to be far more dangerous than he ever expected. Jackman shows a nice layer of subtle danger that should be explored in a better film. However, disappointingly McGregor slips in and out of a New York accent and Williams needed far more character development for us to care about her on anything other than a surface level. Langenegger keeps things relatively simple instead of resorting to lots of fast cutting and fancy camera angles. Deception offers a fantasy even big money can't buy. Deception is the kind old-school thriller that's become all-too-rare within contemporary multiplexes.
  • November 8, 2009
    Decepcionante :) y previsible peli de intriga. Tiene la curiosidad de que parte del metraje transcurre en Madrid (4)
  • November 6, 2009
    Di buono c'erano giusto Michelle Williams e Hugh Jackman schifosamente belli.
  • November 1, 2009
    Thought it might be better than what it was. Still had some good mystery to it and wasn't expecting it to end like it did, so that was good then
  • October 26, 2009
    Buena trama, q les cuento una historia novedosa, bien lograda, en un ambiente exitoso donde los personajes solo buscan como pasar de la monotonia a la excitasión satisfaciendo sus necesidades mas profundas y tan basicas como un Cassual sex
  • October 1, 2009
    Despite Hugh Jackman's brilliance the movie was kind of dull. Started really cool but turned out to be really ordinary.

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  • perfectgentlemn
    September 27, 2008
    Too bad, wish it was better. Movie was weak. ;-)
  • rbevanx
    May 16, 2008
    The Prestige 2: Angier's Back
  • snowwie111
    May 7, 2008
    I want to see it.
  • ComputerAddict
    April 24, 2008
    i dunno about this. hugh jackman is good (hes an aussie!) but what the hell is this about? he spends a night with a hooker and gets rapped up in murder?

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