Malice (1993) review

Married couple Andy (Bill Pullman) and Tracy (Nicole Kidman) are experiencing money problems - he's an associate dean of students at Westerly College, she's an elementary schoolteacher - so they rent out the third floor of their house to distinguished surgeon Dr. Jed Hill (Alec Baldwin), but when Tracy has severe abdominal pain and is rushed into the operating room, Jed removes her reproductive organs and she sues him ... oh, and there's also a serial rapist on the loose (but don't worry about him).  This "neo-noir thriller" was co-written by Aaron Sorkin, has a solid cast (including a memorable conversation with scotch-soaked Anne Bancroft as Tracy's mother) and moody cinematography by none other than Gordon Willis, except it seems so intent on deceiving the audience on a regular basis it forgets it's supposed to make some sort of sense, and totally falls to bits upon the slightest introspection.  Sorkin later admitted he's "not proud" of the movie and that it "turned into a mess" - Becker apparently wanted him to write a sex scene that he didn't want to do - although I do wonder how much blow was snorted during the writing process.  Baldwin's over-the-top "I am God" speech has become justifiably famous, however ... and wouldn't have been out of place in a grim picture from the 50's (imagine if Richard Widmark delivered it).