Murder 101

Pierce Brosnan (Remington Steele, The World Is Not Enough) stars as Professor Charles Lattimore, a successful mystery and true-crime writer who assigns his English class to plan the perfect murder.But after he is tricked into a romantic rendezvous with Francesca Lavin (Kim Thomson), an ambitious student who tries to sleep her way to an A, someone strangles her and leaves Charlie without an alibi.

When he is framed for a second murder, Charlie must convince his estranged wife, Laura (Dey Young), to believe in him -- and to help him learn if one of his students is taking the assignment too seriously.The Hollywood Reporter praised this stylish, intricately crafted mystery-thriller from Bill Condon, the director and Academy Award-winning writer of Gods and Monters as "consistently ingenious."