Main Cast: Halle Berry, Christopher McDonald, Clive Owen, Peter Greene, Clea Lewis
Release Year: 1996
Country: US
Run Time: 94 minutes
MPAA Rating: R
Plot
This is a domestic thriller in the Hitchcock mode with a legalistic twist involving that modern invention, the prenuptial agreement. Halle Berry stars as Josie Potenza, the unhappy wife of alcoholic, philandering executive Tony Potenza (Christopher McDonald). Josie is unfaithful too, but she wants to salvage her marriage and proposes an alcohol-free vacation in a remote backwoods location. Tony agrees, but soon after they arrive, he's called back to work. Angry and lonely, Josie goes to a nearby bar, where she meets sympathetic Cole Wilson (Peter Greene), who's actually a psychotic ex-con. After hearing Josie's tale of marital woe, Cole proposes that he kill Tony. Appalled, Josie refuses, but soon Tony is murdered in a carjacking, leaving Josie the possible inheritor of millions. A prenuptial agreement that would've left her penniless in a divorce puts the LAPD on Josie's scent, while Wilson blackmails her and both her lover Jake (Clive Owen) and his cuckolded wife Nora (Clea Lewis) scheme to profit from Josie's loss. Of course, it's also possible that Josie manipulated the events to transpire exactly as they did. Writer-director Amy Holden Jones also wrote the screenplays for Mystic Pizza (1987) and Indecent Proposal (1993). ~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide
Bill Arnold - Art Director, Nancy Klopper - Casting, Colleen Kelsall - Costume Designer, John R. Woodward - First Assistant Director, Amy Jones - Director, Wendy Greene Bricmont - Editor, Jennifer Ogden - Executive Producer, James Newton Howard - Songwriter, John Frizzell - Songwriter, Jeannine Oppewall - Production Designer, Haskell Wexler - Cinematographer, Roger Birnbaum - Producer, Julie Bergman Sender - Producer, Ed Novick - Sound/Sound Designer, Amy Jones - Screenwriter
