MALICE

Genre: Crime, Mystery
Director: Harold Becker
Rated: M
Released: 1993
Country: CA

Dr Jed Hill is a brilliant young trauma specialist who begins to believes he can do no wrong after he saves the life of a patient given up for dead by another doctor. Jed runs into an old classmate, Andy Safian, who is now a college dean. Andy invites Jed to stay with him in the attic bedroom of a house he is renovating with his wife Tracy. Tracy takes a dislike to Jed, whom she thinks is a psychotic egomaniac. In the mean time, Andy has to deal with a serial killer on the loose among the campus dorms. While Andy is helping belligerent law enforcement officials with the murder investigation, Tracy collapses with a ruptured ovarian cyst. Jed operates to save her life, but after a night of drinking and wild partying, renders her unable to bear children. Hit with a $20 million dollar law suit, the truth starts to unravel as Jed holds onto the notion that he is not merely a brilliant surgeon beyond reproach, he is in fact God.