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Diane Lane is a wayward wife and Richard Gere is her suspicious husband in Adrian Lyne's Unfaithful. Connie (Lane) leaves her suburban home on an errand, venturing into Manhattan during a wicked winds... read more read more...torm. On a trash-strewn Soho street, she literally runs into Paul Martel (Olivier Martinez), a handsome young Frenchman carrying a huge stack of books. Connie has a bad scrape on her knee, and is unable to get a cab, so Paul invites her up to his apartment. Paul is quietly flirtatious as he gives Connie some ice and a bandage for her knee. Connie phones home and explains to her son, Charlie (Erik Per Sullivan), that she's running late. Before she leaves, Paul gives her a book of Persian poetry, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. She mentions the encounter in passing to Edward (Gere), her husband, but it's clear that she's obsessing about Paul, and soon she's back in the city, with a pretext for calling him up. Soon, they are lovers, and they grow bolder and bolder in their passion. Edward begins to suspect, and eventually gets a private investigator (Dominic Chianese of The Sopranos) to follow Connie. His worst fears confirmed, Edward decides to confront Paul, a decision that will come to haunt him. While the screenplay for Unfaithful is credited to Alvin Sargent (Ordinary People) and William Broyles Jr. (Cast Away), the inspiration for Lyne's film came from Claude Chabrol's acclaimed 1969 film La Femme Infidele. ~ Josh Ralske, Rovi

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DVD Release Date: December 17, 2002

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  • September 9, 2010
    Somewhere between soft core porn and an Oscar nominated drama.
  • August 5, 2010
    "Unfaithful" works because it has solid actors as the leads, steady direction, and a script that ties together so many small objects and encounters in such non-contrivance that it's a thrill to watch unfold. Unfortunately, the story does fall into cliche in the picture's first ha... read morelf, but it's in the expertly crafted final shot where the film finds it's own identity.
  • April 8, 2010
    Really good. A bored housewife has an affair with a French man that she meets during a storm. The first half of this is about the sneaking around, the second half takes a turn I didn't expect and really gets quite dark. I did not expect this to be as good as it was.
  • February 23, 2010
    I really don't enjoy these kinds of movies.
  • December 13, 2009
    Where do you go when you've gone too far?
  • September 24, 2009
    Not bad but it?s let down by the fact that all the characters are unlikable and so you care very little of the eventual outcome. It does have its dramatic moments though.
  • June 25, 2009
    Thriller starring Diane Lane and Richard Gere. The couple have been married for many years and have a son. One day Diane bumps into a stranger (Olivier) and they start a passionate affair. Richard senses there is something wrong and hires a detective to follow his wife. He finds ... read moreout how her lover is and approaches him, in an act of rage he kills him and covers up the murder. Good cast and story. Very similar to A Perfect Murder, Presumed Innocent and What Lies Beneath.
  • March 9, 2008
    Diane Lane so seductive, Richard Gere so unproductive, Olivier Martinez has to slip in as the French Lover. What is this movie doing?
  • December 10, 2007
    Well made and Diane Lane is gorgeous.
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    October 21, 2007
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    Seen most of it, and as disguisting the subject material is, its frighteningly realistic, with a dead-on performance by Diane Lane.

Critic Reviews


Michael Wilmington
July 20, 2002
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune

A movie about sexuality that really throbs with eroticism. Full Review

Bill Muller
June 13, 2002
Bill Muller, Arizona Republic

The movie is called Unfaithful, but it's actually extremely faithful -- to the adultery movie rulebook, anyway.

Peter Rainer
May 19, 2002
Peter Rainer, New York Magazine

A glossy, depthless melodrama. Full Review

James Berardinelli
May 14, 2002
James Berardinelli, ReelViews

After the plot's big turning point, the movie loses its focus and can't decide whether it wants to be a melodrama or a crime thriller. Full Review

Richard Roeper
May 13, 2002
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper

Diane Lane is magnificent in this movie. Full Review

Desson Thomson
May 10, 2002
Desson Thomson, Washington Post

At what point in the movie is it too late to ask for your money back?

Stephen Hunter
May 10, 2002
Stephen Hunter, Washington Post

It's an ill movie that bloweth no man to good.

Geoff Pevere
May 10, 2002
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star

Plays like something that's been cryogenically preserved since the AIDS-hysteria heyday of about 1987. Full Review

Mick LaSalle
May 10, 2002
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle

Unfaithful says some true things about marriage, true enough that men will be looking askance at their wives for days after seeing it. Full Review

Charles Taylor
May 10, 2002
Charles Taylor, Salon.com

Diane Lane's sophisticated performance can't rescue Adrian Lyne's Unfaithful from its sleazy moralizing. Full Review

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  • Jodie Foster was offered the role of Connie, but she declined in order to star in "Panic Room".
  • Before Olivier Martinez was cast in the role as Paul, the role was also offered to Brad Pitt and Ryan Philippe.
  • Where do you go when you've gone too far?

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