Tv Movie When Husbands Cheat [WORK]

As a fan of TV movies I often find myself coming to the defence of them as they come under undue criticism for being corny. But there are times when even as a fan it is difficult to leap to their defence and when it comes to "When Husbands Cheat" I can't bring myself to defend it. Here is a movie with a reasonable idea of a wife who having learned all the habits of adulterous men and women starts suspecting her nearest and dearest of cheating on her. But the trouble is that not only is it full of generalisations but it is one of those TV movies which at times plays it for laughs and in doing so makes it corny.

Tv Movie When Husbands Cheat

During her 20th wedding anniversary Tess McCall (Patricia Kalember - The Unspoken Truth) notices her sister Denise (Gina Clayton) looking upset and when she asks Denise says she thinks her husband is cheating on her. With a little guidance from her cop husband Tess and Denise start surveillance on him and catch him in the act in a hot tub with his young girlfriend. Impressed by her work Tess is offered a job by a lawyer to investigate other cases of possible adulterous activity which despite her husband's scepticism is good at leading to her setting up her own office. But as Tess becomes increasingly alert to the actions of cheating men and women she starts to suspect that maybe her husband Craig (Tom Irwin - Mr. Jones) could be cheating on her or is it just paranoia.

So as I said "When Husbands Cheat" has a reasonable idea based on the world of infidelity and how that can affect those who investigate cheating men and women. This could have been a half decent drama which looks at the psychological side both of those who are being cheated on but also those like Tess who become overly alert to the techniques and become increasingly suspicious of everyone. That would have been a truly decent movie full of drama and even some suspense.

But "When Husbands Cheat" is one of those movies which tries to find a light hearted side with unsubtle moments of comedy and over acting. For example when Tess walks into a gadget shop with spy gadgets her joy at seeing what there is on offer is so over the top it is corny. And that is the thing throughout the entire movie there are these unsubtle moments of supposedly light hearted humour which end up corny and ruining the movie.

The corniness is not the only issue as whilst there is a brief moment of a cheating wife the movie is dominated with cheating husbands and makes sweeping generalisations about men. Now some might like to believe that all men are liars and cheats but it is too much and again drags "When Husbands Cheat" down to being a bad TV movie.

Oh, yes. Triggers from TV shows and movies. So many plots and themes revolve around affairs or about "soul" mates or about the "one that got away". As a betrayer, I feel the shame and guilt roll over me when it comes up. I want to find a deep hole to disappear into because it makes me wonder "is my spouse thinking about my affair?" I feel very uncomfortable with these plots and I don't like to watch them.

Sweet Daphne has just been trying to ignore her husband's cheating and enjoy her vacation. Ethan ruins that when he directly tells her of her Cameron's infidelity, informing her not of the night with some random locals, but with her husband's tryst with Harper, the woman she was hoping to befriend. She looks sad for a second, before she rallies and gives Ethan a similar "do what you have to do to make yourself feel better about it" speech that she previously gave to Harper. The pair then go on a walk to a secluded part of the beach, where it's heavily implied that they hook up themselves.

When Rose Castorini, Loretta's mother, discovers that her husband Cosmo is cheating on her, she asks her daughter's fiance Johnny why men cheat. Maybe it's because they fear death, he says. Later that night, when Cosmo sneaks in late, she nails him in the hallway: "I just want you to know that no matter what you do, you're still gonna die! Just like everyone else!" He looks at her with the eyes of a man who has been long married to this woman, and replies, "Thank you, Rose."

Part of Jewison's success comes through the control of tone. The movie is never slapstick, even when it threatens to be, even when Cage's character is in full display. There is a muted bittersweet quality, and a surprising amount of dialogue about death, which for the older character gives a poignant quality to their lives and desires. The emotional center of the film is in the two older couples (four, if you count Rose and Perry and Cosmo and Mona), who in the right light, or even out of it, still feel the passions they felt at 25. 041b061a72