Rating: R
Genre:
Mystery
Theatrical Release: 04/16/1999(USA)
Release Date: 10/12/1999
SubTitles: English/French
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: DD5.1
Run Time: 101 Minutes
Flags: Adult Situations, Adult Humor
Distributor/Studio: Warner Home Video
A darkly comic
whodunit about greed, deceit, and romantic deception,
Goodbye Lover stars
Patricia Arquette as
Sandra, a seemingly moral and obsessively cheerful woman who sells real estate and is fascinated by the movie
The Sound Of Music. But
Sandra has a secret; while she's married to
Jake (
Dermot Mulroney), an ad executive who is having problems with both his career and his drinking, she's having an affair with his brother,
Ben (
Don Johnson), a successful public relations man.
Ben, on the other hand, is already dallying with
Peggy (
Mary-Louise Parker), a woman on his staff who is beautiful but insecure, though she has a darker side few people know about. When
Ben decides to break it off with
Sandra so he can pursue his relationship with
Peggy,
Sandra is furious, and, knowing
Jake would be just as angry, tells him about their affair. A vengeful
Jake confronts
Ben, which leads to a knock-down, drag-out fight -- and
Ben's death, as he falls from a window.
Ben leaves behind a hefty insurance settlement, and soon the surviving characters are scrambling over the money. Enter Police Detective
Rita Pompano (
Ellen DeGeneres), who has seen too much in her time on the force to not develop a deep cynicism about the people she protects -- or to not be tempted to get in on the payday herself.
Goodbye Lover was directed by
Roland Joffé, in something of a departure from his best-known work in high-minded dramas such as
The Killing Fields and
The Mission.
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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