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5.8/10
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A depressed housewife whose husband is having an affair contemplates suicide, but changes her mind when she faces death by a killer hired to do her in.A depressed housewife whose husband is having an affair contemplates suicide, but changes her mind when she faces death by a killer hired to do her in.A depressed housewife whose husband is having an affair contemplates suicide, but changes her mind when she faces death by a killer hired to do her in.
- Awards
- 1 nomination
Gianna Palminteri
- Teacher
- (as Gianna Ranaudo)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaElizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman were originally down to play the parts later taken up by Cher and Ryan O'Neal.
- GoofsThe sandwich that Margaret is eating.
- SoundtracksEternally
Music by Charles Chaplin
Lyrics by Geoffrey Parsons and John Turner
Performed by Sarah Vaughan (as Sarah Vaughn)
Published by Bourne Co. (ASCAP)
Courtesy of Mercury Records
By Arrangement with PolyGram Special Markets
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Cher can be a good actress - but not always
"Faithful" is a worth-watching film, somewhere between comedy and drama, but not tragicomedy. It stars Cher as a rich but rejected wife who wants to take her life on her 20th anniversary. But then a hitman hired by her husband gets into her house. He ties her to a chair and they start to talk - as it's an adaption of a play - and slowly Cher's wish to live on is growing. The dialogue is quite spirited and also funny, you shouldn't miss it. And it's pretty cool when the hitman is making phone-calls to his psychiatrist and vice versa, again and again. You have to enjoy this, it's almost 'tarantinoesque', but better, because there is no celebration of violence here. Nevertheless, in the end it gets kind of disturbing and boring. Now the movie finally suffers from the fact that basically only three actors are involved. Cher's acting is very good in the beginning, her facial acting is fabulous when portraying the desperate woman meeting her killer. But from the moment when her husband (Ryan O'Neal) returns, her character is much less convincing and her face of vivid emotion turns a face of a pale mask of make-up, which - forgive me - she may think makes her look one or two decades younger. Now my vote: 7 out of 10!
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- Dec 31, 1998
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Box office
- Budget
- $13,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $2,104,439
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $967,956
- Apr 7, 1996
- Gross worldwide
- $2,104,439
- Runtime1 hour 31 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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