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9 September 2006 (USA) morePlot:
A married woman (Basinger) falls in love with a Benedictine monk. | add synopsisUser Comments:
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Kim Basinger | ... | Jessie Sullivan |
 | Alex Carter | ... | Brother 'Whit' Thomas |
 | Bruce Greenwood | ... | Hugh Sullivan |
 | Roberta Maxwell | ... | Nelle |
| Debra Mooney | ... | Kat |
 | Lorena Gale | ... | Hepzibah |
 | Ellie Harvie | ... | Benne |
| Ken Pogue | ... | Father Dominic |
| Victoria Anderson | ... | Dee |
 | Shaun Johnston | ... | Joseph Dubois |
| Alex Bruhanski | ... | Shem |
 | Terence Kelly | ... | Dom Anthony |
| Joanne Wilson | ... | Woman Patient |
| Sy Pederson | ... | Brother Timothy |
 | L. Harvey Gold | ... | Tourist |
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I had several problems with the movie:
(1) The screenplay -- specifically, Kim Basinger's voice over: Movies are not books; they should *show* the action rather than have a voice over *tell* us what's happening. Occasionally I find a movie with a voice over that works, but here it seemed more of a lazy way of writing the script. In fact, it sounded to me as if she was practically reading excerpts from the novel in her voice over.
(2) I felt no emotion in the relationship between Jessie and Brother Thomas and also felt that Alex Carter's acting was pretty bad. That's a significant failure for me in defining Jessie's and Thomas' characters -- with no connection between them, it seemed to me as if she just wanted a stud and that for him it was a matter of being sex-deprived. If it had been properly done, the relationship between them would have given much more context to the story.
(3) With the book, I understood Jessie's mid-life crisis. In the movie, it seemed more like just plain boredom.
On the plus side, I didn't think the movie was so bad as for me to turn off the TV . . . though that thought did occur to me.