Romantic drama in which a quite-young Harrison Ford and Kristin Scott Thomas are thrown together when they discover that their respective spouses, who have just died in a plan crash, were having an affair. He's a cop, she's a congresswoman, and both of their careers are not going so well. The film is really sad and affected me quite a lot, because of the impact that the deceit and the discovery has on the protagonists. Interesting in that it avoids conventional happy resolution. It made me thing about the legacy adultery in my dad's family and the effect that it had on him.
I note in passing that the film is 25 years old, and that the main way this manifests itself is the phones - one or two characters have cellphones, but there's a lot of payphone usage, and plot elements turn on messages left on answer machines. Will this be incomprehensible to a future generation?
Watched on Netflix, a rare decent film there.
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