One night while her husband, Bob, is away to a coin show, the wife (Darcy) goes out to the garage to look for some batteries to the TV’s remote control. But, that’s something all men pretty much do no matter how old they get. Now, they do have a neighbor who is young and sexy, and when the husband is working in the yard, he checks her out. The wife is a stay-at-home mom who has raised her children and takes care of the house. In the movie, the husband is a fantastic accountant, who loves to travel on the weekends to coin shows and purchase rare coins for his collection. Certainly the movie was a low budget film when compared to others, but both Joan Allen and Anthony LaPaglia carried the production on their shoulders and did a wonderful job in their roles.įor those who don’t know, A Good Marriage is about a loving couple who have been married for over two decades. I watched the film with a critical eye, examining the parts where other reviewers were the least complimenting. At the same time, it is certainly better than The Lawnmower Man and Children of the Corn and Maximum Overdrive. The movie is by no means as good as Stand By Me or Shawshank Redemption or The Dead Zone. Still, I’m a big fan of the acting by both Joan Allen and Anthony LaPaglia, so I said to hell with it and purchased the movie on DVD, and I’m glad I did. By then, of course, most of the reviews had really blasted the film, downgrading the performances and giving the film two-or-three stars. The film, however, never played at the theater in the hotel where I work, so I had to wait for the DVD to eventually come out. I wondered if the movie would be as good as the story. I’d read the novella in Stephen King’s collection, Full Dark and No Stars, and loved it. I was certainly intrigued by the trailers for the film of A Good Marriage.

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