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Afterglow

Afterglow

1997, Movie, 1h 59min

Nick Nolte and a luminous, Academy Award–nominated Julie Christie deliver superb performances in this multilayered, offbeat comic look at what keeps a marriage going after the initial spark has died. He’s a philandering handyman suggestively named Lucky Mann, while she’s his wife, Phyllis Hart, a former B-movie actress who tacitly tolerates the casual affairs he has with his clients—as long as he doesn’t get emotionally involved. When Lucky gets intimately entangled with a sexually frustrated yuppie housewife (Lara Flynn Boyle), it throws their understanding off-balance—and leads Phyllis to pursue her own romantic adventure.

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Critic Simon Braund

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8

...an exploration of emotional turbulence that eschews Hollywood convention at every turn.

Read full review at Empire

Critic Marjorie Baumgarten

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6

...an adult love story tinged with large measures of comedy and sadness.

Read full review at The Austin Chronicle

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