The Butcher's Wife (1991)

Directed by

Terry Hughes

Genre

fantasy film, romantic comedy, LGBTQ-related film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 40m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

5.7 of 10 from 185 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A clairvoyant woman named Marina marries a butcher she saw in her dreams and moves from the country to New York City. Her psychic advice helps people she meets while working in the shop, and she eventually discovers her true love is a local psychiatrist.

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What happens

The Butcher's Wife is a 1991 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Terry Hughes and starring Demi Moore and Jeff Daniels. The film concerns Marina, a clairvoyant woman (Moore) who thinks that she's met her future husband Leo Lemke, whom she has seen in her dreams and who is a butcher in New York City. They marry and move to the city, where her powers tend to influence everyone she meets while working in the shop. Through her advice, she helps others and eventually finds the true man of her dreams in a psychiatrist Dr. Alex Tremor (Daniels). The Butcher's Wife was a critical and commercial failure, grossing only $9 million at the box office. According to her 2019 memoir Inside Out, Moore regretted starring in the film, saying she only did it to increase her fee after the success of Ghost. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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