Murder 101 is a 1991 American mystery thriller television film directed by Bill Condon, who co-wrote it with Roy Johansen. The film stars Pierce Brosnan, Dey Young, Antoni Corone, Todd Merrill and Dianne Hull. It also stars Raphael Sbarge and Kathe Mazur. It aired on the USA Network on March 20, 1991.
Charles Lattimore, an English professor played by Brosnan, gives his class an assignment to plot a murder, but after a student and someone else dies, he becomes the prime suspect in a murder investigation. Realizing that the theoretical murder plot has been used to set him up, he is faced with finding a way to foil the plan he helped create.