Unfaithful (2002)
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49% of critics liked it
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Diane Lane is a wayward wife and Richard Gere is her suspicious husband in Adrian Lyne's Unfaithful. Connie (Lane) leaves her suburban home on an errand, venturing into Manhattan during a wicked windstorm. On a trash-strewn Soho street, she literally runs into Paul Martel (Olivier Martinez), a… More Diane Lane is a wayward wife and Richard Gere is her suspicious husband in Adrian Lyne's Unfaithful. Connie (Lane) leaves her suburban home on an errand, venturing into Manhattan during a wicked windstorm. On a trash-strewn Soho street, she literally runs into Paul Martel (Olivier Martinez), a handsome young Frenchman carrying a huge stack of books. Connie has a bad scrape on her knee, and is unable to get a cab, so Paul invites her up to his apartment. Paul is quietly flirtatious as he gives Connie some ice and a bandage for her knee. Connie phones home and explains to her son, Charlie (Erik Per Sullivan), that she's running late. Before she leaves, Paul gives her a book of Persian poetry, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. She mentions the encounter in passing to Edward (Gere), her husband, but it's clear that she's obsessing about Paul, and soon she's back in the city, with a pretext for calling him up. Soon, they are lovers, and they grow bolder and bolder in their passion. Edward begins to suspect, and eventually gets a private investigator (Dominic Chianese of The Sopranos) to follow Connie. His worst fears confirmed, Edward decides to confront Paul, a decision that will come to haunt him. While the screenplay for Unfaithful is credited to Alvin Sargent (Ordinary People) and William Broyles Jr. (Cast Away), the inspiration for Lyne's film came from Claude Chabrol's acclaimed 1969 film La Femme Infidele. ~ Josh Ralske, Rovi
- Directed By
- Adrian Lyne
- Written By
- Alvin Sargent, William Broyles
- Genres
- Mystery & Suspense, Drama
- In Theaters
- May 8, 2002 Wide
- Studio
- 20th Century Fox
Critic Reviews
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Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune
A movie about sexuality that really throbs with eroticism.
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Bill Muller, Arizona Republic
The movie is called Unfaithful, but it's actually extremely faithful -- to the adultery movie rulebook, anyway.
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Peter Rainer, New York Magazine
A glossy, depthless melodrama.
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James Berardinelli, ReelViews
After the plot's big turning point, the movie loses its focus and can't decide whether it wants to be a melodrama or a crime thriller.
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Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
Diane Lane is magnificent in this movie.
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Cast
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Richard Gere
as Edward Sumner
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Diane Lane
as Connie Sumner
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Olivier Martinez
as Paul Martel
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Erik Per Sullivan
as Charlie Sumner
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Zeljko Ivanek
as Detective Dean
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Dominic Chianese
as Frank Wilson
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Kate Burton
as Tracy
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Chad Lowe
as Bill Stone
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Gary Basaraba
as Detective Mirojnick
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Margaret Colin
as Sally



