Alan Fawcett, Claudia Besso, Domini Blythe

An unhappy wife becomes romantically entangled with her handyman, while the handyman's wife becomes involved with the unhappy wife's spouse.

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69% liked it

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R, 1 hr. 53 min.

Directed by: Alan Rudolph

Release Date: December 26, 1997

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DVD Release Date: October 14, 2003

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  • August 5, 2009
    Afterglow

    This movie is another from a long list of movies that played at the 1997 Tronto Internatinal Film Festival. Not one of the best from that list, but still worth watching. This movie was filmed in Montreal Canada and Nick Nolte is a handyman who is fixing more then mi...( read more)nor repairs in his travels. His wife ( Julie Christie) is a burned out actress who had a child by another actor while married to Nick, of course one day during an arrugment she brings up the fact that the child who is now 15 is not his, major mistake child hears runs away and so is the story line of our film. Nick is not giving it up to his unfaithful wife in 3-4 years but is screwing all his clients.Of course one client falls in love with him. All in all its not that trashy and has its moments but I can only give it 3 stars
  • December 29, 2007
    A favorite.
  • August 26, 2009
    Christie makes the movie.
  • February 25, 2008
    Julie Christie is radiant as the wronged wife easily outshining the rest of cast. It's a pity she doesn't work more but it makes each time she does something special.
  • December 29, 2007
    In spite of it's almost campy nature, this is possibly the best romantic film I've seen. Christie and Nolte are amazing and the cinematography takes it a step further.
  • January 10, 2007
    What a strange movie and strange cast of characters - though I LIKED this movie and also enjoyed the soundtrack. This was about two married couples who's marriages were falling apart and their searching for that "afterglow" in the dark to pull them back together. The actors perfo...( read more)rmances were wonderful The story-line was full of holes and could have been better but over-all 3 stars and worth seeing - especially for Nick Nolte fans. Laura Flynn-Boyle won me over in this film as well playing a part far and away from her norm.
  • December 10, 2006
    Pretty fricking bad to say the least. I highly recommend not watching it.

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January 1, 2000
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

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