Rating: R
Genre:
Thriller
Release Date: 04/11/2000
Dubbed: English
Sound: 2
Run Time: 95 Minutes
Flags: Graphic Violence, Not For Children
Distributor/Studio: Walt Disney Video
This is a domestic
thriller in the
Hitchcock mode with a legalistic twist involving that modern invention, the prenuptial agreement.
Halle Berry stars as Josie Potenza, the unhappy wife of alcoholic, philandering executive Tony Potenza (
Christopher McDonald). Josie is unfaithful too, but she wants to salvage her marriage and proposes an alcohol-free vacation in a remote backwoods location. Tony agrees, but soon after they arrive, he's called back to work. Angry and lonely, Josie goes to a nearby bar, where she meets sympathetic Cole Wilson (
Peter Greene), who's actually a psychotic ex-con. After hearing Josie's tale of marital woe, Cole proposes that he kill Tony. Appalled, Josie refuses, but soon Tony is murdered in a carjacking, leaving Josie the possible inheritor of millions. A prenuptial agreement that would've left her penniless in a divorce puts the LAPD on Josie's scent, while Wilson blackmails her and both her lover Jake (
Clive Owen) and his cuckolded wife Nora (
Clea Lewis) scheme to profit from Josie's loss. Of course, it's also possible that Josie manipulated the events to transpire exactly as they did. Writer-director
Amy Holden Jones also wrote the screenplays for
Mystic Pizza (1987) and
Indecent Proposal (1993).
~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide
