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Release Date:
3 April 1996 (USA)
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Tagline:
A comedy about a wife, her husband and his hit man. more
Plot:
A depressed housewife whose husband is having an affair contemplates suicide, but changes her mind when she faces death by a killer hired to do her in. full summary | add synopsis
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1 nomination
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Cher can be a good actress - but not always
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Cher | ... | Margaret | |
| Chazz Palminteri | ... | Tony | |
| Ryan O'Neal | ... | Jack Connor | |
| Paul Mazursky | ... | Dr. Susskind | |
| Amber Smith | ... | Debbie | |
| Elisa Leonetti | ... | Maria | |
| Mark Nassar | ... | Maria's Boyfriend | |
| Stephen Spinella | ... | Young Man at Rolls | |
| Jeffrey Wright | ... | Young Man at Rolls | |
| David Marino | ... | Little Tony | |
| Steven Randazzo | ... | Tony's Father | |
| Olinda Turturro | ... | Tony's Mother | |
| Max Norat | ... | Jewelery Store Salesman | |
| Allison Janney | ... | Saleslady | |
| Chris O'Neill | ... | Priest |
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Rated R for language and sex-related dialogue.
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91 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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Certification:
UK:15 (TV rating) |
Iceland:12 |
USA:R (certificate #33683) |
Australia:M |
Canada:14A (Ontario) |
Singapore:NC-16 |
Germany:12 |
Portugal:M/12 |
Spain:13
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Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman were originally down to play the parts later taken up by Cher and Ryan O'Neal.
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Continuity: The sandwich that Margaret is eating.
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[two men are admiring a Rolls Royce parked near the sidewalk]
Young Man at Rolls: Nice Rolls. Beautiful. Incredible.
Young Man at Rolls: You see the line, though?
Young Man at Rolls: It's incredibly beautiful. I wonder what it costs.
Young Man at Rolls: More than we could ever afford.
Young Man at Rolls: Yeah, well, wouldn't it be great to have a car like this? Totally awesome.
Margaret: [looking miserable] It wont make you happy.
Young Man at Rolls: [realizing her presence] What?
Margaret: This car, it won't make you happy.
Young Man at Rolls: [scoffs] I'll look happy, though.
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Young Man at Rolls: Nice Rolls. Beautiful. Incredible.
Young Man at Rolls: You see the line, though?
Young Man at Rolls: It's incredibly beautiful. I wonder what it costs.
Young Man at Rolls: More than we could ever afford.
Young Man at Rolls: Yeah, well, wouldn't it be great to have a car like this? Totally awesome.
Margaret: [looking miserable] It wont make you happy.
Young Man at Rolls: [realizing her presence] What?
Margaret: This car, it won't make you happy.
Young Man at Rolls: [scoffs] I'll look happy, though.
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Movie Connections:
References The Rains of Ranchipur (1955)
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Soundtrack:
Let's Face The Music And Dance
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"Faithful" is a worth-watching film, somewhere between comedy and drama, but not tragicomedy. It stars Cher as a rich but rejected wife who wants to take her life on her 20th anniversary. But then a hitman hired by her husband gets into her house. He ties her to a chair and they start to talk - as it's an adaption of a play - and slowly Cher's wish to live on is growing. The dialogue is quite spirited and also funny, you shouldn't miss it. And it's pretty cool when the hitman is making phone-calls to his psychiatrist and vice versa, again and again. You have to enjoy this, it's almost 'tarantinoesque', but better, because there is no celebration of violence here. Nevertheless, in the end it gets kind of disturbing and boring. Now the movie finally suffers from the fact that basically only three actors are involved. Cher's acting is very good in the beginning, her facial acting is fabulous when portraying the desperate woman meeting her killer. But from the moment when her husband (Ryan O'Neal) returns, her character is much less convincing and her face of vivid emotion turns a face of a pale mask of make-up, which - forgive me - she may think makes her look one or two decades younger. Now my vote: 7 out of 10!