Nina Takes a Lover
by Alan Jacobs
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Actor: Cristi Conaway, Fisher Stevens, Laura San Giacomo, Michael O'Keefe, Paul RhysDirector: Alan Jacobs
Brand: Sony
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.85:1
Running Time: 100 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-02-17
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Movie Reviews of Nina Takes a Lover
Movie Review: Intriguing, Sexy, and Touching with a Twist Ending I Didn't See in the First Viewing
Summary: 4 Stars
If you read the plot of "Nina Takes a Lover" written up as if in a divorce court filing, you'd yawn and think, "Great, another sordid story about infidelity."
But "Nina Takes a Lover" is a lot more than that grubby story. It's actually a rather touching and affecting --and erotic-- love story between Nina (played by the wonderful Laura San Giacomo) and her unnamed lover (played by Paul Rhys). It also has some humor, a wonderful score, and some strikingly beautiful images and scenes.
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The storyline is simple. Nina is a lonely woman whose husband is always away on business. She suspects but doesn't know for sure that he's cheating on her. We see her in the park innocently flirting with what the movie leads us to think is a handsome stranger, a British (actually Welsh) photographer (Rhys's character). Nina's flirting with this man (only listed in the credits as "photographer") rapidly escalates to what appears to be a full fledged, passionate, and illicit affair. Their relationship hits a crisis when her lover admits to several other affairs. And here we get "the twist." Nina's lover is actually her husband! It seems like they were both just engaged in a bit of romantic role playing.
The story ends beautifully. We last see Nina and her lover and husband dancing in the moonlight on top of her building. I'd like to think that Nina and her husband surmounted their difficulties and lived happily ever after.
That's about it...It's a testament to Laura San Giacomo (who I have always liked a great deal) and Paul Rhys that they really seem to have chemistry and appear to truly care for each other. And that's why I like it so much. I just can't figure out why I didn't realize when I saw it the first time that they were actually married to each other and just playing a game. I guess I might have been too hypnotized by San Giacomo (who I find extremely attractive).
Summary of Nina Takes a Lover
Laura San Giacomo Paul Rhys Michael O'Keefe Cristi Conway and Fisher Stevens star in this surprisingly romantic comedy that combines marriage passion and adultery in a lover's triangle you can't resist. San Giacomo stars as Nina a woman deeply in love with her husband despite his infidelity and frequent absences. But when he leaves town and Nina's best friend borrows her apartment for an extramarital tryst Nina starts to reconsider her own ideas about love. Reluctantly she enters into an affair with a handsome stranger. Just when you think you understand Nina's change of heart an astonishing secret reveals her true love. Flirty funny and wonderfully romantic NINA TAKES A LOVER is the perfect movie to share with everyone you love!System Requirements:Running Time: 97 Min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: R UPC: 043396077812 Manufacturer No: 07781Similar DVD Movies
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