"Suzanne's spotlight-craving impulse bares its teeth right away in the onset of their ill-fated marriage, during the honeymoon, the film suggests that there is no moral boundary in her pursuit of ascendancy (George Segal is spot on in a lascivious cameo), which guarantees that this glamour puss is totally unfit for the role of a traditional wife. Soon by hexing and manipulating three impressionable high schoolers, including putting out with Jimmy (Phoenix, still possessing a sharp jawline in his bizarre adolescent phase peppered by ennui and hormones, makes for a commensurable foil in the folie à deux), Suzanne hatches a rather facile plan to getting Larry out of her way and not for one second, dreads its grave consequences. Basking in the media circus in the wake of Larry's death, Suzanne finally becomes the cynosure she craves and she enjoys every minute of it, but the world is far much sinister than she thinks, a tit for tat awaits her just when she believes she can get away with murder by selling Jimmy down the river, a surprising cameo from Cronenberg is the icing on the cake."
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