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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD EAN: 0024543058946 Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC Label: 20th Century Fox Languages: Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox MPN: D2005894D Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: 20th Century Fox Region Code: 1 Release Date: December 17, 2002 Running Time: 124 minutes Studio: 20th Century Fox Theatrical Release Date: May 10, 2002 Editorial Review: Amazon.com: If you ever need dramatic proof that adultery is inevitably destructive, look no further than Adrian Lyne's Unfaithful. Drawing inspiration from Claude Chabrol's 1969 film La Femme Infidèle, the director of Fatal Attraction is mining similar territory here, but this grownup thriller is more intimate than Lyne's dead-bunny potboiler, probing more deeply into the rush of conflicting emotions provoked by infidelity. In what many critics praised as the role of her career, Diane Lane plays the instigator of emotional turmoil, a seemingly happy housewife and fundraiser who cheats on her devoted husband (Richard Gere, in a welcomed change of pace) when she casually encounters a seductive Frenchman (cliché alert!) played by Olivier Martinez. Allowing his actors to speak volumes without words, Lyne emphasizes silent tension over explicit thrills, creating a sexually charged thriller that remains riveting even as it turns partially predictable. "Someone always gets hurt," says one character in a pivotal scene, and Unfaithful fulfills that prophesy in a timeless tale of passion. --Jeff Shannon Description: From the director of Fatal Attraction comes "a steamy thriller" (People Magazine) about physical passion so intense, it consumes everything - and everyone - in its path. Edward and Connie Summer (Richard Gere, Diane Lane) have the perfect life: a happy marriage, an eight year old son, and a beautiful house in the suburbs. But when Connie's chance encounter with a handsome stranger (Olivier Martinez) erupts into a full-blown affair, desire becomes obsession, and the true price of betrayal takes a shattering toll. Pulsing with heart-pounding suspense and erotic thrills, Unfaithful is "sexy", stylish and seductive!" (Wireless Magazine) Average Rating:
 Rating: - [4.5] It always ends in disasterI really enjoy this film, even after multiple vewings it is still effective. The key is great performances with attention to detail, especially from Diane Lane. The story too, is well written, also bringing out attention to details and the affair is just half of the tale, as an unexpected event turns things around half-way through the film, releasing a lot of tension, suspision, and unfaithfulness. One might expect that Unfaithful is about a wife cheating on her husband (been done ... Read More Rating:  - My allegiance is slightly unfaithful...My defiant support of this film was probably spawned from the atrocity that was Diane Lane's Oscar loss back at the 2002 Academy Awards. Yes, Nicole Kidman is a great actress who delivered a decent portrayal of Virginia Woolf, but honestly, there was not one performance in any category that year that rivaled that of Diane Lane. Over the years though I have been able to separate my love for her performance from my feelings towards the film, and what I've found is that this movie as a whole misses ... Read More Rating: - not too believable and the ending... ack!First off, I really didn't like Richard Gere in the droopy role of the poor schmuck married to a woman with zero emotional predictability; he was pretty lame. No cavalier sparkle in his eyes, no look of intellectual sharpness, no decent dialogue, no game; just Gere as Captain Baggy Pants who ends up going to his kid's play with a dead body in the trunk of his car in the school parking lot and later hides a man's body under two bags of garbage. There were a lot of sweaters in this movie. ... Read More Rating:  - Very disappointing and shallowTo this viewer this movie, despite the good acting job by Diane Lane, was very disappointing, rather formulaic. The ending is horrible and could happen only in the movies. The characters just weren't developed well and were rather stereotypical, not getting much below the surface except for some maudlin moments thrown in for effect. Richard Gere's talent is wasted in this silly story. I must admit, though, that I liked the little boy and his personality. Rating:  - INTENSELong before the big bombs go off, there are lots of subtle touches in this movie. Like when the phone number falls out of the book the Frenchman gave her, and she kneals down to see what it is. And when she realizes she pauses, and as she looks across the room, the dog is sitting on the easy chair, paws folded, looking at her. Magestically, or like the devil. Or when she puts her quarter in the pay phone at the station, trying to decide whether to call him or not, and the first time she ... Read More |
