Malice

Malice (1993) is a twisty 1990s thriller you can watch online on iFILM. College dean Andy Safian seems to have it all: a steady job and a marriage to the lovely Tracy. Their settled life cracks open the moment a slick, supremely confident surgeon named Jed enters the picture.

Jed rents a spare room in the Safians' house, and his presence quickly bends everything out of shape. After he operates on Tracy, buried secrets surface and the couple's trust unravels fast. The deeper it goes, the harder it gets to tell who is using whom and where coincidence ends. Alec Baldwin plays the surgeon with a god complex, Nicole Kidman the wife and Bill Pullman the husband caught in someone else's scheme, with George C. Scott, Anne Bancroft and a young Gwyneth Paltrow filling smaller roles.

Director Harold Becker worked from a script Aaron Sorkin helped write, and it shows in the sharp talk and the way the plot flips when you least expect it. A glossy, calculating thriller for viewers who enjoy a screenplay that refuses to play fair. Stream Malice (1993) online on iFILM.