Lovesusti The Worst Film Ever

VividSimon Simply Perfect

ShangLuda Admirable film.

Jenna Walter The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

Steve Schreiber This movie was not for me. There were some good things but for every thing that I like there was something I didn't like at all. This movie glorifies a cheating wife at times and other times redeems itself with her showing remorse or other characters stepping in to tell her that she is not doing something that is okay. By the end there is a touching scene between Diane Lane and Liev Schreiber. He is great in this movie. There was also a pretty good to running joke about Chuck that struck a chord with me. That's a cute thing that gives the characters an inside joke throughout the film. Unfortunately, the payoff at the end has a child dropping the F bomb. Again, not something that is my cup of tea. I think Diane Lane is excellent but this just didn't have legs and wasn't my cup of tea. Better luck next time!

Dev Alok I am writing this review as a non-American. I have watched other movies about wives betraying their husbands and have liked them. For example I liked Unfaithful also featuring Diane Lane. This particular movie however, I felt was depicting the process of betrayal in very unnatural way. Main character Pearl decides to have an extra marital affair and even when caught does not show the emotions that I would expect from a character like hers. She decides to leave at night while her mother-in- law is asking her not to go. Mother-in-law finds out that she is having an affair but does very little about it. Daughter finds out that her mother is sleeping with another man and she shows her anger for mere two minutes. Husband finds out that wife is screwing another man and he just throws the milk and drives car fast. At the end all are fine. I personally feel that even in American family in 1969 this is not what happens after an extra marital affair. This movie almost seemed like the director was telling the audience that this is how you should behave after having an affair. Very unconvincing story-line.

qnfhvnwilbur i saw the film quite some time ago, but i'd like to see it again now, to see how i feel about it. it was a very thought evoking film for a woman over 40. diane lane is a fabulous actress. what an effect the movie had on me. i was so sorry to see her have the affair with someone she didn't know or understand, at all. her husband was a nice, hardworking man. the children were good kids. even the mother-in-law was not bad, and seemed to care about all of them as a family. we should never throw away someone good for someone evil. i found it hard to believe that the husband could forgive her, and take her back. what was once his wife, became something unforgivable. just the way the pubescent daughter wanted, immediately, to sleep with some boy -- any boy at all. i'm not sure of the reason that men cheat, because i'm a female. but i do think that women cheat for other and different reasons. i'm not so sure of those reasons, either. possibly boredom. possibly a lack of attention, or not-so-good sex. i don't know.

RNMorton I have to admit, I've seen much of this movie several times on digital cable but haven't quite made it to the end (for reasons explained later). Diane and family vacation at Catskills resort in the late 60's, Lane the satisfied wife and mother -- until she runs into free-spirit blouse salesman Mortensen. Schreiber is fine as the lovable but dufus husband, as is Feldshuh as his mom (in real life only 13 years older than Lane!), and Paquin as the blooming daughter. It's always fun to watch a beautiful Lane agonize over these life issues and a pre-Lords Viggo is a treat. The Airplane's "Today" gets as good a musical placement in this movie as you'll ever see. The set up is really superb (although a little more graphic than I needed). But But But But But. But the Woodstock sequence seems unnecessary and contrived, blowing a beautiful slice o' life movie to smithereens. Wrong turn. I can't bear to watch it after that, maybe I'll make it through sometime and things will be okay after all.