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what my permanent vote should REALLY be....The plot is so far fetched in places, you really have to suspend disbelief. However, there is something alluring about the film. A lot of visual beauty in the scenes. Some of the script is good, and some of it not so good.....Major spoilers ahead:The film does gloss over very quickly the healing and "falling in love again" that occurs between Hurt and Stowe as husband and wife. It's as though Stowe and Branagh have a period of close friendship, then a very brief and passionate affair, and then in the next scene we are supposed to believe they got over each other almost immediately? There is no transition from THEIR mutual love to the renewed love and passion that Stowe feels for her husband, played by Hurt. And Branagh is not struggling with any lingering romantic feelings for Stowe? And he's happy to just be a priest and watch her raise his kid as Hurt's child? Well, I'm giving it a 7 at this juncture because it's worth seeing Kenneth Branagh at his physical peak. He's really attractive in this movie and what a voice! He's a fine actor even in mediocre or "fine but flawed" material. I wish they'd shown the sex between him and Stowe in a slightly LESS tasteful and delicate manner! For some reason, I felt Madeleine Stowe could have seemed more like a Boston, 1930s aristocrat. She spoke too fast and came across as a bit contemporary, perhaps too modern and casual for the part she was playing? it's hard to explain.....just a feeling. I'll watch it again and give her another shot. Hurt was very good I thought.Definitely a soap opera and the plot strains one's belief in places, but enjoyable overall. I'm still waiting for Kenneth Branagh to give a really bad performance. Don't think it is possible.

All the cinematic fringe areas of this film are terrific, set design, costuming, hair, wigs and Kenneth Branagh, but what this film lacks is a stimulating plot, an appealing story line and enough electrifying dialogue to keep us awake.Confusion about who is the main character versus who is the film's antagonist forces us to close our eyes to ponder but since the dialogue direly needs a few more rewrite drafts before our ears unclog it's all just too much work.The acting is erratic at best. Up against the Shakespearian Kenneth Branagh William Hurt manages to stay afloat but Madeline Stowe sounds like she's screeching her lines most of the time.Considering the dialogue she's saddled with you can't blame her for being histrionic.Faced with the decision of going out or staying in the choice is obvious.It's a lot easier to stay home and do a crossword puzzle.

[Possible SPOILER]I picked this film out of a used-vhs bin basically because it had Kenneth Branagh in it. I figured, how bad can it be for $2?This movie was one of those rare surprises that keeps me going back to used-vhs bins. The characters are interesting, the sets are visually appealing, and the casting is phenomenal--William Hurt, Blythe Danner, Madeleine Stowe, Robert Loggia, etc. The plot is a thought-provoking treatise on how far humans will go to get what they want. Overall, definitely worth *much* more than $2!

I've seen him in few things, but all that I have seen him in has been good. This includes "Hamlet," in which he was brilliant. That showed that he can take Shakespeare and make it his own. This movie was no Shakespeare, but I was drawn into each character, wanting to know what was going to happen to them each second of the movie. As someone else said, there was a visual appeal also, but they failed to see the beauty in the characters' many flaws, especially Kenneth's character. I failed to see any plot holes, but I could be blind to them, and I was moved by it's message which you may figure out for yourself. If you don't like Kenneth Branagh, this movie and "Hamlet" might just change your mind.