Gretchen Mol, Joseph Fiennes, Myk Watford

Paul Schrader's Forever Mine tells a not-very-compelling, still-less-credible story of love, betrayal, and retribution. A cabana boy (Joseph Fiennes) at a Florida beach resort falls hard for a ...( read more  read more... )gorgeous guest (Gretchen Mol) neglected by her wheeler-dealer husband (Ray Liotta). After a steamy nude scene and a sweet, barefoot date, Fiennes follows her home to New York and declares undying love. Mol, a good Catholic girl who reads Madame Bovary, confesses the affair to Liotta. Being shadier than she realizes, he arranges to have nasty things befall his rival. Cut to 14 years later (though in fact the movie has been shuffling time periods since the beginning): Fiennes, long presumed dead, resurfaces to lend his talents (he's become a master criminal) to the now thoroughly corrupt Liotta and see what his beloved is up to. Fiennes has a new name, and a scar on one side of his face, so neither recognizes him. You don't have a problem with that, do you?

Nonrecognition is always a tricky proposition in movies, but Forever Mine's problems don't end there. Fiennes, sans Shakespeare in Love beard and Bardlike charisma, doesn't begin to suggest a guy who'd inspire obsession. His costar's attempt at creating a soul sister to Emma Bovary is as underacted as it is underwritten, and Liotta's husband is just a lout, despite a desperate stab at giving him a virtually literary sensitivity regarding his romantic one-upping. You want a spellbinding Schrader movie about outré passion and literary mystery, look up The Comfort of Strangers. --Richard T. Jameson

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R, 115 min.

Directed by: Paul Schrader

Release Date: January 1, 1999

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DVD Release Date: May 15, 2001

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  • July 29, 2008
    Forever Mine is one of those movies that you wish would be better then it is. (Hell the dude behind Taxi Driver is behind it) Instead it is a melodramatic overdone cliched mess.
    The characters are either far too whinny (Fiennes) or too big of a jerk (Liotta get a Scorsese script ...( read more)quick.) to get as interested or caring, the dialogue is so unintentionally hilarious it sounds like a 8 year old pretending to be serious. Simply put this is a huge mess and depressing to see how bad Paul Schrader's career has been since the early 80s.
  • October 3, 2008
    great cuz Joseph is here, so cute as always...bad cuz he almost dies in the end...ever since I saw it I hate Ray Liotta
  • September 18, 2008
    Too long and predictable, drifted off during the middle, woke about 30 minutes later and could still finish the movie. Men who like Gretchen Mol will enjoy her nakedness.
  • August 27, 2008
    Not a total waste of time but not the greatest ending either...
  • August 15, 2008
    Started off pretty slow, but ending with passion...
  • July 6, 2008
    Great film. I love P Schrader films.
  • January 24, 2008
    If it wasn't for the great performances by the always wonderful Joseph Fiennes and Ray Liotta, this movie would be worthless. Even the love triangle, which we know happens every day around the world, is hard to believe.

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