The Rich Man's Wife Movie Review 1996

Modern noir strands unhappy wife Josie (Berry) on Martha's Vineyard without her loathsome spouse (McDonald), where she makes the mistake of confiding her marital woes to sympathetic, yet obviously deranged stranger Cole (Greene). She tells Cole sometimes she wishes her husband was dead. Poof! Before you can say "foreshadowing," hubby's murdered and she's the prime suspect. Increasingly nutso Cole stalks our heroine, seemingly innocent, but possibly not as blameless as it appears. Failed mystery/thriller delivers little of either and the attempt at a "Strangers on a Train" premise and a "Usual Suspects" type ending fail miserably.

Distribution

Buena Vista Home Entertainment, 500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91521-1120, Toll-free: 800-723-4763, URL: http://www.bvhe.com

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 95 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Mystery & Suspense, Contemporary Noir, Frame-Ups, Psychotics/Sociopaths, Kindness of Strangers, Marriage

Screenplay

Amy Holden Jones

Cast

Halle Berry, Christopher McDonald, Clive Owen, Peter Greene, Charles Hallahan, Frankie Faison, Clea Lewis

Cinematography

Haskell Wexler

Director

Amy Holden Jones

Music

John (Gianni) Frizzell

Producer

Roger Birnbaum, Hollywood Pictures, Caravan Pictures, Buena Vista