To her dismay, her husband's lover comes into the store after her, crying and clearly upset. Shocked and flustered, Madelyn hides in a nearby convenient store as the two lovers leave the restaurant. Madelyn stops into a bistro to indulge in a fancy take-out dessert for herself (two servings!) and sees her husband at a corner table having a clearly intimate conversation with a beautiful, young woman. It's clear that this has become a frequent routine for him. In the opening scene, Madelyn talks on the phone with her husband, Paul (played by Joseph Kell), and he tells her he will be working late tonight and won't be home for dinner. Marcia Gay Harden (don't you love her?) stars as Madelyn, an older woman married for decades with a career in marketing.
I stumbled onto a movie on Amazon Prime called If I Were You that turned out to be very, very funny, with moments of warmth and emotion, too. As usual when he is out of town, I was looking for something female-centric to indulge in.
To catch up, I thought I'd go in reverse order and start with the movie I watched most recently, Saturday night after my husband left for Europe. It turns out that 'Movie Monday' isn't very convenient for me.but I do like the alliteration! I have a backlog of movie reviews to write because I have been too busy on Mondays lately to write an extra post.
