Malice-A Baldwin and N. Kidman

Andy (Bill Pullman) and Tracy Safian (Nicole Kidman) are a happily married couple living in a Victorian house that they are restoring in Western Massachusetts. He is an Associate Dean at a local college, while his wife teaches art to children. When a student is attacked by what could be a serial rapist, her life is saved by Dr. Jed Hill (Alec Baldwin), a brilliant surgeon who has recently joined the staff of the area hospital.

Andy recognizes Jed from high school. Money is tight, so Andy invites him to rent the third floor of his home with Tracy in order to finance the new plumbing. With his propensity to bring home sexual partners and to party late into the night, Jed quickly proves himself to be a less-than-ideal tenant.

When student Paula Bell (Gwyneth Paltrow) is attacked and killed, Andy finds her body in the garden behind her home, prompting Andy's friend, Detective Dana Harris (Bebe Neuwirth), to view him as a possible suspect.

While at the police station delivering a semen sample, Andy learns his wife has been hospitalized and is being operated on by Jed. In removing one of Tracy's ovaries, which has ruptured due to a cyst, Jed discovers Tracy is pregnant, but the stress of the procedure causes the fetus to abort.

Another doctor notices that Tracy's other ovary is torsed and appears necrotic. Jed consults with Andy and advises him to agree to the removal of Tracy's second ovary, rather than risk her life. Andy painfully agrees, since this will mean that Tracy can never have children. Jed overrules the protests of other doctors that the ovary might still be healthy and he removes it. The second ovary was in fact healthy. Jed, rather than bury the report, faces the consequences of his actions.

At a deposition, Jed's attorney Lester Adams (Josef Sommer) learns his client had been drinking prior to the surgery. His case is not helped when Jed responds to an accusation that he has a God complex by declaring that as far as medicine is concerned, he is God. His insurance company settles with Tracy for $20 million. She leaves Andy, not forgiving him for the loss of her ability to ever have children.

Andy accidentally discovers that the serial rapist is Earl Leemus (Tobin Bell), the college handyman, and apprehends him. After he tells Dana that Tracy had been pregnant before the surgery, the detective informs Andy that his semen sample indicated he is sterile and couldn't have fathered Tracy's child. Andy confronts Tracy's lawyer, Dennis Riley (Peter Gallagher), accusing him of having impregnated Tracy and colluding with her. Riley denies everything and suggests that Tracy’s mother might be able to offer him some insight. Andy was under the impression she was dead.

In return for a bottle of single malt whiskey, Mrs. Kennsinger (Anne Bancroft) tells Andy the truth about her supposedly sweet daughter: Tracy is a con artist. She had a relationship with a wealthy man who paid her to have an abortion, but Tracy kept the money and had it done illegally. Her mother also confirms Andy's suspicion that Tracy was pregnant by a Dr. David Lilianfield, who ultimately proves to be Jed.

Back at home, Andy discovers a hypodermic needle containing the fertility drug Perganol. He learns that an excess amount of the drug can cause painful ovarian cysts, thereby realizing that Tracy deliberately created her illness with Jed's help. An angry Andy confronts Tracy and tells her he wants half the settlement money. Also, if he should meet with an unexpected death, a letter will immediately be sent to the police department, directing them to interview the young boy next door. He implies that the boy, frequently seen sitting at his bedroom window, was a witness to the activities of Jed and Tracy.

Jed's reaction to Andy's demands is to give him what he wants. Tracy angrily refuses, saying that there was no way she was splitting it three ways. Tracy says they have to get rid of the witness because that is the only bargaining chip that Andy has on them. He refuses and slaps her for suggesting that they murder a young boy. Tracy attempts to pressure him into it but Jed won't go along, so Tracy pulls a gun and shoots him.

That night, Tracy waits until the neighbor's nurse next door leaves. She lures Andy away from his house with a misleading phone call, then breaks in and tries to smother the boy. When she wraps cellophane around his face from behind, she realizes that it's a dummy and she has been set up. Andy surprises her. Detective Harris, who was disguised as the nurse, returns and makes the arrest. As Tracy is led away, she sees the boy and his mother return. It is revealed that the boy is, in fact, blind.