Kenneth Branagh and Harold Pinter's 25-years-later spin on playwright Anthony Shaffer's wicked dissection of a testosterone-poisoned cat-and-mouse game over a woman is a bitter disappointment, despite the flashy stunt casting: Michael Caine, who played the young upstart who's stolen a rich man's trophy wife in the original, is now in the role of the cuckolded older husband.
Unemployed actor Milo Tindle (Jude Law) wants to marry his girlfriend, Maggie (Eve Channing), but her much-older husband, world-famous crime novelist Andrew Wyke (Caine), refuses to give her a divorce. So Milo presents himself at Wyke's sleek, ultramodern house in the country in hopes of ...
Released:
2007
Rated:
R
Length:
86 mins