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The story centers on Constance "Connie/Con" ([[Diane Lane]]) and Edward "Ed" Sumner ([[Richard Gere]]) as a couple living in the [[New York City]] suburbs whose marriage goes dangerously awry when she indulges in an adulterous fling. |
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The movie begins with Connie making breakfast while Ed gets ready for work and their eight-year old son Charlie gets ready for school. She says to them that she is going to [[Manhattan]] to do some shopping for an auction she is planning. |
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Edward and Connie confront each other about what each had done. Connie burns the photographs and Edward offers to turn himself in. Connie replies that he shouldn't and they will get through it together. Connie then picks up the snow globe and the bottom of the globe comes loose. Inside is a note from Edward saying that she is the best part of every day (which explains why Edward became irate when he saw it in Paul's apartment). |
Edward and Connie confront each other about what each had done. Connie burns the photographs and Edward offers to turn himself in. Connie replies that he shouldn't and they will get through it together. Connie then picks up the snow globe and the bottom of the globe comes loose. Inside is a note from Edward saying that she is the best part of every day (which explains why Edward became irate when he saw it in Paul's apartment). |
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Later, Edward and Connie are in their car stopped at an intersection, talking about what they should do next. They discuss whether they should sell their house and business, move to a new location and change their names, starting life over again; or whether Edward should turn himself into the police. As this conversation goes on for a long time, the traffic lights change many times from red to green and back again, casting light on their faces. Finally, the camera pulls back to reveal that their car is stopped next to a police station |
Later, Edward and Connie are in their car stopped at an intersection, talking about what they should do next. They discuss whether they should sell their house and business, move to a new location and change their names, starting life over again; or whether Edward should turn himself into the police. As this conversation goes on for a long time, the traffic lights change many times from red to green and back again, casting light on their faces. Finally, the camera pulls back to reveal that their car is stopped next to a police station. |
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Revision as of 14:10, 17 August 2006
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| Directed by | Adrian Lyne |
| Written by | Alvin Sargent and William Broyles Jr. (Screenplay) From La Femme infidèle by Claude Chabrol |
| Produced by | Adrian Lyne G. Mac Brown |
| Starring | Diane Lane Richard Gere Olivier Martinez |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
Release dates | May 10, 2002 |
Running time | 124 min |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $50,000,000 |
Unfaithful is a 2002 movie directed by Adrian Lyne. It was adapted by Alvin Sargent and William Broyles Jr. from the French language film La Femme infidèle by Claude Chabrol.
Plot
Template:Spoiler The story centers on Constance "Connie/Con" (Diane Lane) and Edward "Ed" Sumner (Richard Gere) as a couple living in the New York City suburbs whose marriage goes dangerously awry when she indulges in an adulterous fling.
The movie begins with Connie making breakfast while Ed gets ready for work and their eight-year old son Charlie gets ready for school. She says to them that she is going to Manhattan to do some shopping for an auction she is planning.
Connie then takes the train into Manhattan's Grand Central Station, but has difficulty trying to walk through the area in a windstorm. As she chases after taxis, she bumps into a stranger (Olivier Martinez). They both fall but Connie scrapes her knees.
The stranger offers to take Connie to his apartment to clean off the scrape. At that moment, an empty cab goes by, but she decides to take the stranger up on his offer, instead of heading back to the train station.
He introduces himself as Paul Martel, a Frenchman who buys and sells used books. He offers her tea and she calls home to check on her son. While she is talking to her son, Paul moves up silently behind her and places ice on her knee. She gasps, but he moves away before she realizes why she gasped.
Connie decides that she feels uncomfortable and tells Paul that she needs to go home. He lets her go but gives her a book of poetry as a gift. Later that night, Connie tells her husband about the incident but does not elaborate on her visit to Paul's apartment.
The next morning, after Edward and Charlie leave, she picks up the poetry book from Paul. His business card falls out. She then takes the train into Manhattan again and calls him from Grand Central. He invites her over for coffee.
When Connie enters into Paul's apartment, he has soft music playing and asks her to dance. At first she is hesitant, decides that it is wrong, and then starts to leave the building. But when she has to come back into the apartment because she forgot her coat, Paul grabs her and kisses her.
Connie and Paul start having an affair. Later, Edward begins to suspect something when Connie increases the frequency with which she visits Manhattan, and when she no longer seems to be interested in him. After one of Edward's co-workers spots Connie and Paul kissing in a downtown cafe, Edward hires a detective to follow Connie.
The detective comes back with pictures of Connie and Paul, which devastates Edward. He decides to go visit Paul. But when he arrives at the apartment building, he is unable to get in the front door so he walks back to the car. Just as he turns his back, he sees Connie come out of the building, get into her car and drive off. Edward then slips inside when someone else comes out of the apartment.
Edward confronts Paul and gets angrier and angrier with him. Edward finds a snow globe in the apartment, which Paul explains was given to him by Connie as a present. Edward is shocked as he originally gave Connie the globe as a present. While sitting on Paul's bed Edward begins to feel ill, and in a sudden moment of rage uses the snow globe to hit Paul several times on the head. Blood begins to pour from Paul's head and he collapses to the floor.
Edward then starts to panic, but manages to clean up the blood and wipe his fingerprints from everything he touched. He wraps Paul's dead body in a rug. Just as he is about to leave, the phone rings. It is Connie, who leaves a message on the answering machine saying that she needs to end the affair. Edward erases the message and leaves. He dumps Paul's body in the trunk of his car, and later that night, drives the body to the dump and leaves it among the rubbish.
Later, two police detectives show up at the Sumner home. They say that Paul's wife had reported him missing, and they found Connie's phone number in his apartment. Connie says that she only met him once.
A week later, the detectives come back and say that they have found Paul's body at the dump. Connie becomes very upset but maintains that she only met him once. Edward also tells the police that he'd never met Paul before.
Later that night when Connie drops off Edward's clothes to the dry cleaners, she finds the photos of Paul and herself, and realizes that Edward must have had been involved in Paul's death. Her suspicions are confirmed when she sees that the snow globe she gave to Paul is now back in her home.
Edward and Connie confront each other about what each had done. Connie burns the photographs and Edward offers to turn himself in. Connie replies that he shouldn't and they will get through it together. Connie then picks up the snow globe and the bottom of the globe comes loose. Inside is a note from Edward saying that she is the best part of every day (which explains why Edward became irate when he saw it in Paul's apartment).
Later, Edward and Connie are in their car stopped at an intersection, talking about what they should do next. They discuss whether they should sell their house and business, move to a new location and change their names, starting life over again; or whether Edward should turn himself into the police. As this conversation goes on for a long time, the traffic lights change many times from red to green and back again, casting light on their faces. Finally, the camera pulls back to reveal that their car is stopped next to a police station.
Cast
- Diane Lane - Constance 'Connie'/'Con' Sumner
- Erik Per Sullivan - Charlie Sumner
- Richard Gere - Edward 'Ed' Sumner
- Olivier Martinez - Paul Martel
- Myra Lucretia Taylor - Gloria
- Michelle Monaghan - Lindsay
- Chad Lowe - Bill Stone
- Joseph Badalucco Jr. - Train conductor
- Erich Anderson - Bob Gaylord
- Damon Gupton - Other businessman
- Kate Burton - Tracy
- Margaret Colin - Sally
- Marc Forget - Café bartender
- Larry Gleason - Tim
- Dominic Chianese - Frank Wilson
Awards
The movie was nominated for more than 10 awards, including the 2002 Academy Award for Best Actress (Lane), a Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama (Lane), and Best Sound Editing in a Feature.
Trivia
- To prepare for the initial love scene between Paul and Connie, director Adrian Lyne had Diane Lane watch the film Aimée & Jaguar.
- Brad Pitt and Ryan Phillippe were offered the role of Paul. However during pre-production, the producers decided that Paul be French rather than American, so Olivier Martinez received the part.
- Robert Redford was offered the role of Edward.