A seething morass of intrigue and betrayal lurk behind the placid surface of post-WWII middle-class life in this tale of a four-sided triangle and its inevitable complications. P>
The year is 1949, and New York businessman Harry (Chris Cooper), a grey, middle-management drone in a corporate machine, is having a confessional martinis-and-cigarettes lunch with his old friend Richard (Pierce Brosnan), a dashing rake who wears success as lightly as a bespoke dinner jacket.
Harry is having an affair: Not a cheap, thrilling fling but a meeting of the souls with Kay (Rachel McAdams), a bookish young widow who lives near the country place to which Harry and...
Released:
2008
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
90 mins