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The Good Wife

The Good Wife

Actor(s): Rachel Ward, Bryan Brown, Sam Neill, Steven Vidler, Jennifer Claire
Director(s): Ken Cameron
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Movie Details

MPAA Rating: R
Content Advisory: Violence, Brief Nudity, Adult Situations, Not For Children, Adult Language
Movie Release: 1986
DVD Release: 12/26/2001
Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV,Pan and Scan
Audio Tracks: English
Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
SwapaDVD Credits: 1
Number of Discs: 1
Run Time: 1 hrs 38 mins
Studio: MGM
Total Copies: 2
Genres: Drama, Romantic Drama, Period Film, Marriage Drama

DVD Synopsis

Originally titled The Umbrella Woman, The Good Wife is set in an Australian lumber town in 1939. Marge Hills (Rachel Ward), the bored wife of kindly-but-dull Sonny Hills (Bryan Brown) begins dreaming of outside romances. She unexpectedly gets her wish in the form of Sonny's much-younger brother Sugar (Steven Vidler), whom Sonny cheerfully offers to his wife as a surrogate bedmate. Given this curious arrangement, one wonders why Marge is so upset when she is propositioned by handsome stranger Neville Gifford (Sam Neill). Eventually, Gifford sleeps with every other woman in town but Marge. Fed up with the unimaginative lovers in her own house, Marge finally gives in to Gifford, arousing the jealousy not of the cloddish Sonny, but of the immature Sugar. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Actors

Rachel Ward - Marge Hills
Bryan Brown - Sonny Hills
Sam Neill - Neville Gifford
Steven Vidler - Sugar Hills
Jennifer Claire - Daisy


Editorial Review of DVD

Originally titled The Umbrella Woman, The Good Wife is set in an Australian lumber town in 1939. Marge Hills (Rachel Ward), the bored wife of kindly-but-dull Sonny Hills (Bryan Brown) begins dreaming of outside romances. She unexpectedly gets her wish in the form of Sonny's much-younger brother Sugar (Steven Vidler), whom Sonny cheerfully offers to his wife as a surrogate bedmate! Given this curious arrangement, one wonders why Marge is so upset when she is propositioned by handsome stranger Neville Gifford (Sam Neill). Eventually, Gifford sleeps with every other woman in town but Marge. Fed up with the unimaginative lovers in her own house, Marge finally gives in to Gifford, arousing the jealousy not of the cloddish Sonny, but of the immature Sugar. The Bergmanesque ending of The Good Wife could be called unexpected, but then, so is practically everything else in this strange little film. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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