Anthony Hopkins is a recently widowed, fired/retired professor. He's kind of lost and finds himself seeking out a writer to tell the story of his wife's "murder" at the hands of the school that fired him. Instead, he befriends the writer and begins to "live again". Then he meets Nicole Kidman, playing a divorcee with an abusive ex working 3 jobs to get by. They have an affair yet seem to never really be comfortable with each other. Mixed in are flashback scenes with a younger version of Hopkins' character acting out the scense that will lead him to hide his big secret. This is a movie that very clearly thinks highly of itself, with lots of "LOOK AT US DOING ALL THIS GREAT ACTING BY YELLING AT EACH OTHER"-type stuff going on. In the end, the story isn't interesting, the characters are boring, the secret is nothing, and it's all just a waste of time. 4/10.
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