Careful What You Wish For (film)
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| Directed by | Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum |
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Ashok Amritraj Michael A. Helfant Robert L. Stein Bradley Gallo Kirk D'Amico |
| Written by | Chris Frisina |
| Starring |
Nick Jonas Isabel Lucas Paul Sorvino Kandyse McClure Graham Rogers Dermot Mulroney |
| Music by | Josh Debney The Newton Brothers |
| Cinematography | Rogier Stoffers |
| Edited by | Padraic McKinley Geofrey Hildrew |
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Troika Pictures
Hyde Park Entertainment Amasia Entertainment Roberi Media Image Nation Merced Media Partners Myriad Pictures Ashok Amritraj Productions |
| Distributed by | Starz Digital |
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90 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $4.5 million |
Careful What You Wish For is a 2015 American erotic thriller film directed by Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum, and starring Nick Jonas, Isabel Lucas, Graham Rogers, and Dermot Mulroney. The film was released on June 10, 2016, by Starz Digital. Its plot is heavily inspired by the 1981 movie Body Heat.
Doug Martin (Nick Jonas) is a young adult spending the summer with his parents at their lake house. When rich investment banker Elliot Harper (Dermot Mulroney) moves in next door, Doug finds himself immediately drawn to Elliot's young wife, Lena Harper (Isabel Lucas). Elliot hires Doug to work on his sailboat, and this gives Doug an excuse to interact with Lena, who is often alone due to Elliot traveling for business. Eventually Lena and Doug begin an affair, starting with Doug losing his virginity to Lena. Lena gets them pre-paid cellphones to communicate on, and constantly warns Doug about Elliot's possessive and jealous nature. Lena also shows signs of physical abuse, which she says are from Elliot.
One night Lena calls Doug over to house, where he finds Elliot dead on the floor. Lena claims he attacked her and she accidentally killed him when she fought back. After some major trepidation on Doug's part, Lena convinces him to help her cover up her part in Elliot's death. Soon after an insurance investigator named Angie Alvarez (Kandyse McClure) shows up to investigate Elliot's death, due to the large settlement of 10 million dollars Lena is now set to receive from his life insurance. Suspicion quickly falls on Doug, and he grows nervous from the increased attention on him by both Angie and the town Sheriff (Paul Sorvino). Eventually he realizes that Lena has been manipulating him this whole time, intending to frame him for Elliot's murder; she claims that instead of a consensual affair Doug had been stalking her and raped her, and then killed Elliot in a jealous rage. Doug's attempts to prove his innocence are thwarted at every turn, presumably by Lena. For example, a gardener of the Harper's who had seen Doug and Lena together turns up murdered before the police can talk to him.
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