The Rich Man's Wife

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The Rich Man's Wife is a 1996 suspense-thriller film written and directed by Amy Holden Jones. The films stars Halle Berry along with Peter Greene and Clive Owen.

[edit] Plot Synopsis

A beautiful young woman's marriage to a rich older man is on the rocks. When a make-up vacation goes badly, the wife confides to a stranger in a bar that she wishes her husband were dead. A short time later he is killed in an apparent car-jacking, and the wife is the prime suspect.

[edit] Cast

• Halle Berry - Josie Potenza
• Peter Greene - Cole Wilson
• Clive Owen - Jake Golden
• Frankie Faison - Detective Ron Lewis
• Charles Hallahan - Detective Dan Fredricks
• Allan Rich - Bill Adolphe
• Clea Lewis - Nora Golden
• Christopher McDonald - Tony Potenza

[edit] Trivia

• According to Cinematographer Haskell Wexler, after the test screening the ending was changed as "the bad guy at the end didn't die badly enough. As it was, Halle Berry shot the guy, bang, he died. When we redid the scene, she shot him, kicked him in the nuts, struck him with a hatchet so he fell back, shattering a car windscreen before hitting the ground, where we stabbed him with a high heel..."

• Blooper: When Tony is being stalked by Cole, Tony stops at an ATM. We see Cole's truck pass Tony's empty car, and there are no vehicles in the background. A few seconds later, we see the same shot of the empty car, but now, instead of being in front of Tony's car, where it should be, Cole's truck is parked in a parking lot in the background of the shot.