Christine Lahti, Campbell Scott, and John Heard star in "The Pilot's Wife," a 2002 TV movie based on the novel by Anita Shreve.
Lahti plays Kathryn Lyons, whose husband piloted a plane that exploded over Ireland. A union executive (Campbell Scott) is on hand to break the news, help her with the press, and with the investigation into what happened. It doesn't take Kathryn long to realize that the higher-ups think that her husband had something to do with it.
Kathryn finds a phone number on a lottery ticket and eventually gets a line on a woman named Muire, but no one will talk to her. So she travels to Ireland to find out why her husband died and how Muire figured into it. She soon finds out that she didn't know a thing about her husband.
Thanks to Lahti, this film is somewhat interesting but not great. It's all over the place, taking off on a strange tangent into the IRA and terrorism. Also, as another reviewer said, there were 100 people on the plane. We don't hear much about the tragedy, just the investigation. It starts to feel like the pilot was the only one on the plane.
I think this film would have been better if the focus had been on Kathryn Lyons and her delusions about her marriage and her husband, and coming to terms with how it had affected her, her daughter, and her marriage. I felt the tangential plot was the focus rather than the personalities involved.
Disappointing, given the talent involved.
Lahti plays Kathryn Lyons, whose husband piloted a plane that exploded over Ireland. A union executive (Campbell Scott) is on hand to break the news, help her with the press, and with the investigation into what happened. It doesn't take Kathryn long to realize that the higher-ups think that her husband had something to do with it.
Kathryn finds a phone number on a lottery ticket and eventually gets a line on a woman named Muire, but no one will talk to her. So she travels to Ireland to find out why her husband died and how Muire figured into it. She soon finds out that she didn't know a thing about her husband.
Thanks to Lahti, this film is somewhat interesting but not great. It's all over the place, taking off on a strange tangent into the IRA and terrorism. Also, as another reviewer said, there were 100 people on the plane. We don't hear much about the tragedy, just the investigation. It starts to feel like the pilot was the only one on the plane.
I think this film would have been better if the focus had been on Kathryn Lyons and her delusions about her marriage and her husband, and coming to terms with how it had affected her, her daughter, and her marriage. I felt the tangential plot was the focus rather than the personalities involved.
Disappointing, given the talent involved.