# Help with Malice

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-malice/250007>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [June 12, 2004, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-malice/250007 "2004-06-12T19:57:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2004, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-malice/250007/1 "2004-06-12T19:57:03Z")

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The movie “ **Malice** ,” that is.

It played on TV this past week and it did keep  
my interest. Far fetched but what the hell.

In case others want to see it when it comes  
back, I’ll hide the Q.

The hero’s vengeful wife tries to do away  
with 10 year old kid next door. What did she fear he  
might have seen that would have been so damned  
incriminating?

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**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2004, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-malice/250007/2 "2004-06-12T19:58:42Z")

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That since there were no curtains on their bedroom window, he would have seen the doctor injecting her with the stuff that faked her illness

Sorry, I can’t remember the character names, but I hope that answers your questions.

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**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2004, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-malice/250007/3 "2004-06-12T20:18:10Z")

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The thing that I most remember about that movie (besides Bebe Neuwerth being much sexier than Nicole Kidman), was at the end of the movie…

when they show the kid is sitting at the window in his chair, an African American woman in the audience said, very loud, “Just like white folk to leave a blind kid home alone all day long”. Which kind of gave a nice comic ending to the film.

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**Author:** ![BobT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e8cbc/32.png) [@BobT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobT)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2004, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-malice/250007/4 "2004-06-12T21:50:33Z")

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This movie does turn up on cable disproportionately so I seem to see it all the time. It’s from the era when Bill Pullman was in every film.

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**Author:** ![BarnOwl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@BarnOwl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BarnOwl)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2004, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-malice/250007/5 "2004-06-13T01:11:27Z")

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**BobT**

You’re undoubtedly correct, but the curious things is, I watch altogether too much cable TV, and yet, this was first time I noticed - and then watched **Malice**.

**shibboleth**  
Funny story. Thanks!

**ivylass**

I think your observation is dead on - yet even so, at first I figured it’s a helluva stretch. “A ten year old voyeur is going to tell the cops he saw the woman in the house next door, getting a hypodermic injection by some stranger (the surgeon), and they’re gonna believe him?”

Well I could sit here and scoff at that possibility, but that gal’s deranged. She can’t afford to ignore the threat. It’s still a stretch, but for a movie, a semi-believable stretch.

Thank you, Ivy