The Other Man
2,951
Mystery. Drama
Peter (Liam Neeson) and Lisa (Laura Linney) are settled in the comfort of their long-term marriage. Lisa is a successful shoe designer and Peter runs his own company. It is the night of the launch of Lisa's latest collection, and at dinner she seems evasive - and then odd. "Do you never wish you'd been given the chance to sleep with someone else?", she asks him. Then she is gone. Peter struggles to find answers, following a trail to ... [+]
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United States | USA Today | "Director Richard Eyre tries to fashion a Hitchcock-style thriller (...) Mostly, the adaptation tries the viewers' patience and elicits inadvertent laughs" | NEG |
United States | Los Angeles Times | "Approaching the film with, let's say, lowered expectations may go a long way toward appreciating what it attempts, as well as what it achieves." | NEU |
United States | Entertainment Weekly | "The Other Man is self-conscious, overproduced, overacted Euro-marital hoo-ha." | NEG |
United States | Time Out | "Everything from the script to the film’s score seems stock" | NEG |
United States | Village Voice | "It hurts to see a terrific cast (including the lovely and intelligent young Irish actress Romola Garai as the couple's quietly seething daughter) squandered on such dreary filmmaking." | NEG |
United States | The Hollywood Reporter | "Seldom has such great star power been marshaled in the service of a sillier movie than The Other Man" | NEG |
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