Synopsis
When Marie, a widow in Provence with two daughters, locks her bedroom door and goes to sleep, she dreams about Marty, a literary agent in Manhattan who dreams equally vividly about Marie. The women look alike. Marie meets William who begins to court her. Marty meets Aaron, an accountant, becomes his friend and then his lover. Both women tell their lovers about their dream life. William is jealous, Aaron is accepting. Even though they've become lovers, Marie won't fall asleep next to William. Marie goes on holiday with William to Paris, and Marty wakes up with an ashtray from the hotel on her night stand. Are they the same person? What will unlock reality?
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Cast
- William FichtnerAaron Reilly
- Demi MooreMartha Marie / 'Marty' Talridge
- Eloise EonnetJennifer 'Jenny' Talridge
- Julianne NicholsonKim
- Sinéad CusackJessie
- Joss AcklandDr. Langer, the French Psychiatrist
- Peter RiegertDr. Peters, the New York Psychiatrist
- Stellan SkarsgårdWilliam Granther
- Gerry BammanEdward 'Ed' Youngerman
- Hélène CardonaFrench Newscaster (uncredited) (voice)
Recommendations
- 63
Boston Globe
There's no Passion in this psychological drama. - 50
USA Today
Pretty hard to buy into at all. - 50
Chicago Sun-Times
By the ending of the film, which is unconvincingly neat, I was distracted by too many questions to care about the answers. - 50
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Though a hypnotically beautiful film, it's dramatically listless and dull, and completely lacking in passion. - 30
Chicago Reader
Slick and effective escapism with a touch of poetry (a la "The Sixth Sense") that left me vaguely dissatisfied once the mystery was supposedly resolved. - 25
Miami Herald
Berliner deserves something better, as do all the actors -- even Moore, who's starting to look very interesting and European. - 25
San Francisco Examiner
Moore can't help but be rotten. She has no grace and little nuance, which is why she's always best as a hard-ass in movies. - 20
L.A. Weekly
It's hard to imagine a movie at once more pandering and insulting to adult women
