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Malice is the title of a 1993 film written by Jonas McCord, Aaron Sorkin and Scott Frank, starring Nicole Kidman, Alec Baldwin, and Bill Pullman. The film was released October 1 1993.

A tale about a happily married coupled who want to have children. Tracy teaches infants, Andy's a college professor. Things are the never same after Tracy's taken to the hospital and operated on by Jed, a "know all doctor" friend of Andy's.

Cast

Alec Baldwin
(Dr. Jed Hill)
Nicole Kidman
(Tracy Kennsinger Safian)
Bill Pullman
(Andy Safian)
Bebe Neuwirth
(Detective Dana Harris)
George C. Scott
(Dr. Martin Kessler)
Anne Bancroft
(Mrs. Kennsinger)
Peter Gallagher
(Attorney Dennis Riley)
Josef Sommer (Attorney Lester Adams)
Tobin Bell
(Earl Leemus)
William Duff-Griffin (Dr. George Sullivan)
Debrah Farentino (Nurse Tanya)
Gwyneth Paltrow
(Paula Bell)

Plot summary

Andy and Tracy Safian live a peaceful life in a sleepy suburb of Massachusetts. Andy is the principal of the local high school while Tracy teaches art to kids. They live in a beautifully restored home with a leaky roof. A young boy, whose mother is a nurse on the late shift, watches them from his bedroom while he plays on his keyboard.

A young student is attacked by a serial rapist. Her life is saved by a new doctor, Dr. Jed Hill. Needing money to fix the roof, Andy invites Jed to lodge with them. As a side issue, Tracy has been suffering terrible pains and has been secretly taking medication.

Another student is attacked and killed. Since Andy found the body, Detective Dana Harris asks for a sample of his semen. At the police station, Andy learns that his wife is in hospital. Jed operates on Tracy and saves her life. He finds out that she is pregnant; he also notices that her ovaries are twisted. Jed asks Andy to take the decision. Over the protests of the other doctors, Jed opts not to wait for tests but to remove her ovaries. In doing so, the foetus aborts. Afterwards, Jed is told that the ovaries were, in fact, healthy. Jed decides not to bury the report but instead to face the consequences of his actions.

At a hearing, it is decided that Jed acted wrongly - and had been drinking to boot. Tracy is awarded $20 million. She also leaves Andy, who she blames for taking out her ovaries so she can never have children.

Andy discovers the identity of the serial rapist and apprehends him. Later, Dana Harris tells him that his semen sample was sterile; the child could not have been his. Andy tells this to Jed, no longer a doctor, but Jed isn’t interested. He did wrong. Andy confronts Tracy’s lawyer, Dennis Riley, and accuses him of fraud. He denies this, but lets slip that Tracy’s mother, who he thought had died, is still alive.

Tracy’s mother, Mrs. Kennsinger, tells Andy all about her sweet little daughter; that she is, in fact, a little con artist. She says that she had a relationship with a doctor who paid her for an abortion (she kept the money and had it done illegally). Andy follows the trail to a clifftop house where he finds Tracy living with... Jed!

Jed gave Tracy the pills so she could fake her illness, then twisted the healthy ovaries with his hands. But Tracy thought she could double her money by being pregnant. Now Andy is on to them. Tracy agrees to meet Andy and puts on all her charm. Andy tells her he wants half the money or he’s going to the cops! There’s a witness: the young boy who watched her and Jed from his bedroom window.

Jed tries to stop Tracy from killing the kid, but she shoots him dead. Tracy goes to the boy’s house and smothers him with cellophane - but it’s only a dummy. Dana arrives and arrests Tracy. As she is taken away, the boy and his mother arrive back. When the boy steps out of the car he produces a white cane!

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