After losing their spouses in a plane crash, an internal affairs cop and a congresswoman find each other's keys in each other's loved ones' possessions and discover that the two were having an affair.
Acting
Ford's wounded masculinity collides with Scott Thomas's restrained ice
Direction
Pollack's polished melancholy can't quite save the sluggish script
Production
Gorgeously gray DC and Virginia locations scream prestige TV before it existed
Director
Sydney Pollack
Harrison Ford
Dutch Van Den Broeck
Kristin Scott Thomas
Kay Chandler
Charles S. Dutton
Alcee
Richard Jenkins
Truman Trainor
Dennis Haysbert
Detective George Beaufort
Sydney Pollack
Carl Broman
Susanna Thompson
Peyton Van Den Broeck
Peter Coyote
Cullen Chandler
Kate Mara
Jessica Chandler
Susan Floyd
Molly Roll
Bonnie Hunt
Wendy Judd
Dylan Baker
Richard Judd
Paul Guilfoyle
Dick Montoya
Lynne Thigpen
Phyllis Bonaparte
Bill Cobbs
Marvin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Pollack originally wanted to cut 30 minutes; the studio refused, and it bombed at $31M domestic.
The film adapts a 1984 novel but shifts focus to the surviving spouses; the book spends more time with the cheating couple's backstory.
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