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Faithful (1996)

Faithful poster
Directed by
Paul Mazursky
Genre
drama film, comedy film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 31m
Rated
R
Rating
5.5 of 10 from 31 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A woman hired a hit man to kill her husband. But the hit man arrives while the husband is away, and the woman realizes she might not want to go through with it. The two of them talk and wait for the husband to come home.

tensedarkly comictheatricalclaustrophobicunpredictablebitingconversational

What happens

Faithful is a 1996 American comedy crime drama film directed by Paul Mazursky and starring Cher, Chazz Palminteri and Ryan O'Neal. Palminteri wrote the screenplay, which is an adaptation of his stage play of the same name. Faithful tells the story of a woman, her husband and a hit man. The film was entered into the 46th Berlin International Film Festival. This is Mazursky's final theatrical film as director. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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