A high-school drama teacher struggles to keep her family together after she discovers her husband's sexual addiction.A high-school drama teacher struggles to keep her family together after she discovers her husband's sexual addiction.A high-school drama teacher struggles to keep her family together after she discovers her husband's sexual addiction.
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- TriviaHarry Hamlin & Lisa Rinna, who play married couple Cameron & Joanna in this film, are actually married in real life, with two children together. Hamlin & Rinna also play a married couple on the cult series, Veronica Mars (2004).
- GoofsIn one scene, Cameron Thomas (Harry Hamlin) brings his wife a DVD he says is the "1939 version of 'Romeo and Juliet.'" The MGM "Romeo and Juliet" film was made in 1936.
- ConnectionsReferences Romeo and Juliet (1936)
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Cameron Thomas is an orthopedic surgeon who seems to work long hours, to the frustration of his drama teacher wife Joanna. We don't know where they live, but it's far enough from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, that Cameron has to fly there.
Cameron sure does seem to be having a good time in the early scenes of the movie, and his blonde wife is hot. Wait ... that's NOT his wife! And she is not the only woman he goes to. In fact, he goes to the bad section of town as often as possible. This man has a serious problem, and Joanna eventually figures it out. He's bored with her, and nothing she could do would help. Therapy might help. Would you believe they have 12-step programs for this sort of thing?
Eventually, the movie does inspire. It takes falling down--a lot--to get addicts of whatever type to really work on their problems. As one might expect, that happens here.
Lisa Rinna does an okay job as Joanna, but nothing really makes this movie any better than the typical Lifetime offering. Or at least what network TV used to do when movies like this were made for broadcast, not cable. Harry Hamlin has a few good scenes, but he's kind of boring. There's a variety among actresses playing Cameron's women. The first one was easy to like (though not in the sense we should be liking her, I suppose) and I could have enjoyed a movie with her as the female lead.
Just another disease of the week, but not that bad.
Cameron sure does seem to be having a good time in the early scenes of the movie, and his blonde wife is hot. Wait ... that's NOT his wife! And she is not the only woman he goes to. In fact, he goes to the bad section of town as often as possible. This man has a serious problem, and Joanna eventually figures it out. He's bored with her, and nothing she could do would help. Therapy might help. Would you believe they have 12-step programs for this sort of thing?
Eventually, the movie does inspire. It takes falling down--a lot--to get addicts of whatever type to really work on their problems. As one might expect, that happens here.
Lisa Rinna does an okay job as Joanna, but nothing really makes this movie any better than the typical Lifetime offering. Or at least what network TV used to do when movies like this were made for broadcast, not cable. Harry Hamlin has a few good scenes, but he's kind of boring. There's a variety among actresses playing Cameron's women. The first one was easy to like (though not in the sense we should be liking her, I suppose) and I could have enjoyed a movie with her as the female lead.
Just another disease of the week, but not that bad.
- vchimpanzee
- Jun 12, 2007
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