SincereFinest
disgusting, overrated, pointless
Joanna Mccarty
Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.
Haven Kaycee
It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film
SnoopyStyle
It's the summer of 1969. The Kantrowitz Jewish family is vacationing in a holiday camp not far from Woodstock. The father Marty (Liev Schreiber) has to go back to repair TVs in time for the broadcast of the moon landing. Mother Pearl (Diane Lane) feels stymied by a static life. Daughter Alison (Anna Paquin) is a rebellious teen making a new friend with Myra Naidell (Lisa Jakub). Walker Jerome (Viggo Mortensen) is a traveling salesman selling clothes. Pearl falls for the mysterious salesman and starts an affair. Marty's mother (Tovah Feldshuh) notices.Diane Lane is a slightly better cheating wife in 'Unfaithful'. This one doesn't quite have the style. It's first time directing for actor Tony Goldwyn. He doesn't really have the eye for it. The story is too ambitious for him. The actors are all doing a good job. There are some great actors here. It's just missing a real vision from the leader in the director's chair. This is more of an actors movie and a romance novel. Also a movie with Woodstock should have more music in it. The sense of place isn't fully achieved. I would have preferred to move away from Woodstock and not have the grand expectations. The smaller family drama is so much more superior anyways.
Steve Schreiber
This movie was not for me. There were some good things but for every thing that I like there was something I didn't like at all. This movie glorifies a cheating wife at times and other times redeems itself with her showing remorse or other characters stepping in to tell her that she is not doing something that is okay. By the end there is a touching scene between Diane Lane and Liev Schreiber. He is great in this movie. There was also a pretty good to running joke about Chuck that struck a chord with me. That's a cute thing that gives the characters an inside joke throughout the film. Unfortunately, the payoff at the end has a child dropping the F bomb. Again, not something that is my cup of tea. I think Diane Lane is excellent but this just didn't have legs and wasn't my cup of tea. Better luck next time!
qnfhvnwilbur
i saw the film quite some time ago, but i'd like to see it again now, to see how i feel about it. it was a very thought evoking film for a woman over 40. diane lane is a fabulous actress. what an effect the movie had on me. i was so sorry to see her have the affair with someone she didn't know or understand, at all. her husband was a nice, hardworking man. the children were good kids. even the mother-in-law was not bad, and seemed to care about all of them as a family. we should never throw away someone good for someone evil. i found it hard to believe that the husband could forgive her, and take her back. what was once his wife, became something unforgivable. just the way the pubescent daughter wanted, immediately, to sleep with some boy -- any boy at all. i'm not sure of the reason that men cheat, because i'm a female. but i do think that women cheat for other and different reasons. i'm not so sure of those reasons, either. possibly boredom. possibly a lack of attention, or not-so-good sex. i don't know.
killer_tray
A film of understandment of each other, thats how i see this film.When we enter the lives of a Jewish middle class family in the summer of 1969, we see a semi happy family. The mother, Pearl, is a content housewife, convince that she should be happy with what she has. The daughter, Alison, a teenager who is convince she knows whats good for her. The father, Marty, believing that what he gave up in his youth was worth it.Pearl, who discovers that she can make her husband any other then what he is, get caught up in an affair with the blouse man, Walker. During the affair, Pearl constantly seeks her old feelings that she use to have with her husband, that she now shares with Walker. Alison, also tries to grasps life for all she get out of it, boys, concerts, rebelling against the man. But soon she sees that her mother is also trying to seeks all of life riches, again.Without a doubt, My fave scene. Marty confronts Pearl, struggling to believe that she would do that after all he gave up. Like any man when this happens, rage takes over and a want to make the other person feel like they do.Alison finally grows up and sees her birth as almost a reason why this all happened. Her birth was the result of a uncontrollable attraction between her mother and father in their teens. Her father convinced her that what happened between them was love at first sight, and he would not have had it any other way. Alison accepts this, but still shows how young she is by not seeing why they can't make their marriage work.In the end, you sense that although Marty will never fully forgive Pearl for what she did, that they love each other, and Marty was willing to do anything to stay with her, even if it means dancing to her beat.Everyone can connect with someone in this movie, Pearl, Marty, Alison, even Daniel the little brother. Every parent only wants there children to have what they didn't, even if it's as simple as a childhood. Everyone wants a bit more then what they have. Everyone questions what they must of done in their to end up where they are now.And Everyone never really lets go of their child/teen-hood.
