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ACTOR
Judith LightJay ThomasLinda SorensenRobin Dunne
DIRECTOR
Ted Kotcheff
SYNOPSICS
A Husband, a Wife and a Lover (1996) is a English movie. Ted Kotcheff has directed this movie. Judith Light,Jay Thomas,Linda Sorensen,Robin Dunne are the starring of this movie. It was released in 1996. A Husband, a Wife and a Lover (1996) is considered one of the best Drama,Romance movie in India and around the world.
A woman who is about to divorce her philandering husband of 23 years finds he's had a debilitating stroke, and comes home only to care for him. She finds companionship with a friend, which leads to romance. The three must then deal with the complex feelings on all sides.
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Other title "A Strange Affair"...Judith Light and Jay Thomas...
Good combination- and an odd story based on fact. The title- "A Strange Affair" is a bit more intriguing.This is an interesting story, well-acted by Judith Light and Jay Thomas. When Light's husband (Jay Thomas) has a stroke, she decides to attempt a catering business, at first it is very uncertain, but she encounters a sympathetic auto mechanic who helps her out. If this was fiction, it would be boring. But somehow, Light draws in the audience, makes us care. She is after all, doing the right thing, caring for a selfish husband, and trying to make things work. The children are on the periphery. There are some beautiful winter scenes of Horseshoe Falls and the Seattle coastline, flying at 14,000 feet. This is a good film- give it a chance. Light always rises to the occasion, and makes us care about the characters involved. Jay Thomas is also believable,and sympathetic. Hope to see him in more family drama. 9/10.
"The Popular Mechanics version of Jules and Jim"
This made-for-TV movie, inspired by actual events, has a teleplay by Danial Freudenberger that avoids most of the cliches of the romantic triangle, and features an understated performance by Judith Light, who co-executive produces. Light is caterer Lisa McKeever, who is on the verge of leaving her gambling cheating husband documentarian Eric (Jay Thomas) when he has a stroke. Although his speech is not affected, Eric is still immobilised, and Lisa feels obliged to stay in a loveless marriage. However romantic interest from her mechanic Art (William Russ) brings a complication. Freudenberger makes Art so amenable, that Art's empathy with Eric subverts all Eric's anger and jealousy, though amusingly Lisa objects to Art's sensitive new age man routine when she snaps "Just love me. Don't try to understand me". We get doses of melodrama in a heart attack, the disapproval of the McKeever daughter ("There's a word for women who love two men"), and an air vent in Eric's room that allows him to overhear Lisa and Art having sex - though the latter is acknowledged by Lisa as a deliberate act of cruelty. Freudenberger's dialogue has the wit to have Eric describe the set-up as "the Popular Mechanics version of Jules and Jim", and has one of Eric's jokes repeated, though we also get "Why are you doing this?". Given that Lisa is a caterer and Art also a good cook, we also get a lunch where their food is eroticised as they eat chocolate. Given that both Lisa and Art have good intentions, it's a shame that more is not made of Eric's anger, since these moments give Thomas his best moments. He is styled with a grey streak in his hair, but then both Light and Russ are also photographed with lines under their eyes. Director Ted Kotchef creates a very clean atmosphere, with only one subjective camera angle and one expressionist shot, only one badly staged scene where Lisa eyeballs her daughter, and the sentimental music of Jonathan Goldsmith is tolerable.
And then there was Light
For the first fifteen minutes of The Strange Affair I thought, "Men like Eric should get a marriage restraint, and for life." I hate such guys, but I kept watching. Because Judith Light is in it. And the Bad Husband & Pitiful Wife story - so often exploited in LifeTime TV films - appeared to be a lot more complicated than I expected. Light is a fascinating woman. She's blessed with a long face, big hair and heavy Catherine Deneuve eyelids that make her cool, regal and tragic all at once. According to the laws of the Hollywood Beauty Norm she isn't a beauty, but she is, she is! She's absolutely gorgeous. petershelleyau wrote a much better review than me, so all I further have to say: wonderful movie. And viewers will be a Judith Light fan forever.
"The Popular Mechanic's version of Jules and Jim."
A Strange Affair indeed! What a film! Judith Light shines in this made-for- Lifetime(?) drama based on "real events". Lisa (Light), a proud graduate of Betty Crocker U, her husband Eric (the ubiquitous Jay Thomas) and a greasy-nailed poor mans' Colin Firth (Russ) offer an, um, interesting(?) dynamic.