Intersection

Coming Soon

to Sky Movies

Director: Mark Rydell

Stars: Richard Gere, Sharon Stone, Lolita Davidovich, Martin Landau, Jenny Morrison

Year: 1994 Running Time: 99 mins Rating:

Simmering romantic drama starring Richard Gere as an architect whose teenage daughter makes it tough to decide between his high-maintenance wife Sharon Stone and exciting lover Lolita Davidovich. Moral questions are raised and flashbacks abound in On Golden Pond director Mark Rydell's update of French menage-a-trois The Things Of Life.

Review

Richard Gere is torn between two women in this remake of a 1970 French film which opens, as does this, with the leading character hovering between life and death after a car crash.

What happens between that and the final resolution is just barely interesting in a high-gloss kind of way. Gere turns on the charm, but occasionally goes over the top. Sharon Stone and Lolita Davidovich give it their best shot as the women involved, but they're not quite up to touching our emotions with their problems.

Pretty 14-year-old Jenny Morrison makes a promising debut as Gere's daughter and old-stager Martin Landau gets the best bit of dialogue in the film when he tells Gere to get on with things and make a decision between his estranged wife (Stone) and new lover Davidovich.

Real life, though, is kept resolutely at bay: for fans of the stars, it's okay, but a definite time-marker in terms of their careers.