The Rich Man's Wife

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The Rich Man's Wife

The movie poster for The Rich Man's Wife.
Directed by Amy Holden Jones
Produced by Julie Bergman Sender
Roger Birnbaum
Written by Amy Holden Jones
Starring Halle Berry
Christopher McDonald
Clive Owen
Peter Greene
Music by John Frizzel
James Newton Howard
Distributed by Buena Vista Pictures
Release date(s) September 13, 1996
Running time 94 min.
Language English
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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.

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[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.

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[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.

[edit] Reaction

  • Upon release, the film garnered almost universally negative reviews and performed poorly in theatres.
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