Perfect Murder / Murder In The First / Murder By Numbers, A

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"Murder Triple Feature" includes "A Perfect Murder" - Wall Street titan Steven Taylor seems like a devoted husband. He isn't. Beautiful Emily Bradford Taylor seems like a faithful wife. She isn't. And when Steven hires Emily's lover to kill her, it seems like A Perfect Murder. It isn't. In fact, little is what it seems in this sleek thriller. "Murder In The First" - Christian Slater, Kevin Bacon and Gary Oldman star in this compelling, fact-based story of the trial that shut down the dungeons of Alcatraz. In a haunting performance, Bacon plays convict Henri Young. His crime: heisting $5 for his starving sister. His fate: worse than death. He's confined to the dungeons after a failed escape - an isolation lasting three mind-shattering years. When Henri at last emerges, he's confused, savage, barely human...and he quickly slays the stoolie who ratted on his escape. It's an open-and-shut case of Murder One. But a resolute attorney has another option. He and Henri will put Alcatraz and its sadistic associate warden on trial. "Murder By Numbers" - "Sandra Bullock has never been more original or affecting" (Michael Sragow, Baltimore Sun) as Cassie Mayweather, a homicide detective confronting personal demons while following her instincts about real killers in a Jane Doe murder case. The clues point one way - but the chain of evidence is too perfect. Police procedure melds with escalating tension in this suspense thriller directed by Barbet Schroeder ("Single White Female"), Ryan Gosling ("The Believer") and Michael Pitt ("Finding Forrester") chillingly play bored rich kids who plan and execute a perfect murder, then watch the police fall for every clue. They figure they've gotten away with it. What they don't figure right is Cassie Mayweather?.

Disc 1 - Side A: "A Perfect Murder" / Disc 1 - Side B: "Murder In The First" / Disc 2: "Murder By Numbers".