dbborroughs Review of Lady in Black

Lady in Black (1987)

Twisted soap opera becomes funny with its pretzel complications.

[6/10 · 11 October 2008]

Talk about soap opera. Man has his wife embezzle millions for his business and gambling debts. When a trip to see his uncle to get money to pay it all back goes badly they return home via and ferry and in an accident she falls overboard. The husband continues on with his "winning ways" as complication follows complication as his misdeeds and those of his wife begin to turn up. People die and others come back from the past. Grand tragedy becomes a comedic as the twists become pretzel like and then some. You simply can't take your eyes off the screen, even as you begin laughing at the film because you won't believe where its going, with some late in the game twists that will have you throwing up your hands as you double over in laughter. Its a year or decade of TV soap opera plots crammed into 90 minutes. Unbelievable and unbelievably silly-and yet you will have to watch it all the way to the end.