Commandments Movie Review 1996

When Seth Warner (Quinn) loses his wife (Going), job, and even his dog, he finds no solace in faith and decides to test why God would make a good man suffer by breaking every one of the 10 commandments. Rachel (Cox), his wife's sister, persuades him to move in with her and her jerk husband Harry (LaPaglia), who can't really be bothered by Seth's problems. The three leads certainly have presence but given the ambivalence of the material, the movie doesn't hang together.

Distribution

Universal Studios Home Video, 100 Universal City Plz., Universal City, CA 91608-9955, Phone: (818)777-1000, Fax: (818)866-1483, URL: http://www.universalstudios.com, Remarks: Does not handle retail queries from consumers; contact your local video distributor.

Available on VHS
Running time 92 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Comedy Drama, In-Laws, Religion, Ethics & Morals

Screenplay

Daniel Taplitz

Cast

Aidan Quinn, Courteney Cox, Anthony LaPaglia, Louis Zorich, Pat McNamara, Tom Aldredge, Pamela Gray, Alice Drummond, Jack Gilpin

Cinematography

Slawomir Idziak

Director

Daniel Taplitz

Music

Joseph Vitarelli

Other

Joanna Going

Producer

Joe Medjuck, Daniel Goldberg, Ivan Reitman, Gramercy Pictures, Universal Pictures