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      The Good Wife

      R 1986 1h 37m Romance List
      Reviews 35% 500+ Ratings Audience Score Marge Hills (Rachel Ward) feels stifled by her marriage and her staid life in a small Australian town in 1939. Marge's husband, Sonny (Bryan Brown), surprises her with his openness to her desire for something more, even giving his blessing to her desire for extramarital sex. When a charismatic stranger named Neville Gifford (Sam Neill) comes to town, Marge identifies him as a suitable lover. But her attraction develops into an obsession after he spurns her advances in favor of other women. Read More Read Less

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      Audience Member Really creepy. Definitely not my type of movie Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/17/23 Full Review dave j Monday, September 24, 2012 (1986) The Good Wife DRAMA Originally called "The Umbrella Woman" in Austraila, a movie that plays like one of the worst soap operas ever made starring Rachael Ward as Marge Hills the wife of real life husband of Bryan Brown playing as her faithful husband Sonny Hill, the time is sometime during "The Great Depression" and chops trees down as a way of getting by along with his younger brother Sugar Hills (Steven Vidler) who eventually gains consent in hitting puberty with Sonny's wife. Eventually, she becomes selfish and gets tired living the life she's always accustomed in doing which is the cleaning and the cooking, that she's willing to get herself humiliated by some of the townspeople just so she can be with a much wealthier sleazeball who takes pride in sleeping around with other peoples wives and his name is Neville played by Sam Neil. The movie is so bad one can know whatever happens if s/he were to use the fast forward button while playing since the dialogue is so uninspiring and emotionally draining. Oh yeah, although the movie is given the "R" rating on my commercial copy, it's only given that rating because of it's subject matter since their is no nudity nor any offensive language, at least as far as I know anyway. 1/2 out of 4 Rated 1 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review kirby p Great acting, but the plot is so implausible that it's laughable. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member A slow, but very interesting and visually beautiful I really like Bryan Brown's character Sonny, who is kind even in the face of his wife's lost state. Rachel Ward and Bryan Brown always light up the screen and bring an interesting chemistry. I won't watch it again, but enjoyed it nonetheless. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/26/23 Full Review Audience Member "The Good Wife" is slow, solemn and boring, and so I assume it is meant to be a serious study of Marge and her problems. But this material is so dead that maybe having fun with it was the only hope. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/25/23 Full Review Audience Member Interesting, yet foolish movie. It details an obsession mildly, and could have showed more psychological struggle. For a late 80's movie, the acting is decent as well as the picture. It won't leave you feeling as you were when you first began watching it. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/19/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times The Good Wife is slow, solemn and boring. Rated: 1.5/4 Jan 1, 2000 Full Review Urban Cinefile Critics Urban Cinefile May have been more successful had director Ken Cameron taken a less earnest approach...All the same, performances are tops, especially Bryan Brown and on and off screen wife Rachel Ward May 23, 2008 Full Review Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Rated: 2/5 Jul 17, 2005 Full Review Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat Spirituality & Practice Propelled by a coltish and convincing performance by Rachel Ward. Rated: 3/5 Aug 27, 2004 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Synopsis Marge Hills (Rachel Ward) feels stifled by her marriage and her staid life in a small Australian town in 1939. Marge's husband, Sonny (Bryan Brown), surprises her with his openness to her desire for something more, even giving his blessing to her desire for extramarital sex. When a charismatic stranger named Neville Gifford (Sam Neill) comes to town, Marge identifies him as a suitable lover. But her attraction develops into an obsession after he spurns her advances in favor of other women.
      Director
      Ken Cameron
      Screenwriter
      Peter Kenna
      Rating
      R
      Genre
      Romance
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Oct 24, 2018
      Box Office (Gross USA)
      $470.1K
      Runtime
      1h 37m
      Sound Mix
      Surround