Overwiew :Lasse Hallstrom (THE CIDER HOUSE RULES, MY LIFE AS A DOG) directs this romantic comedy in which Julia Roberts plays Grace, a decent but naive southern woman who, happening to drive by her husband, Eddie (Dennis Quaid), one afternoon, is shocked to discover him locked in a passionate embrace, in public, with another woman. She immediately confronts her errant hubby, setting the town gossips' tongues wagging, and moves back in with her wealthy parents, provoking reactions from her imperious dad (Robert Duvall), who believes that a wife's duty is to stand by her man, and her sarcastic sister, Emma Rae (Kyra Sedgwick), who thinks that the bum got what he deserved. Soon Grace has caused a town scandal by openly questioning anyone who may have had an affair with Eddie and also starts to unearth problems in her parents' relationship. The film is ultimately a story about women who attempt reconciliation with their cheating spouses by exploring a new set of rules on their own terms. The screenplay is by Callie Khouri, the Academy Award- winning screenwriter of THELMA AND LOUISE.
Producers :
Anthea Sylbert, Paula Weinstein, Goldie Hawn
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www.washingtonpost.com - : In ''Something to Talk About,'' Julia Roberts is driving through town with her young daughter when she spots Dennis Quaid, her trusted husband, passionately embracing a blond woman. Devastated, she comes back to a message machine full of won't-be-home-till-late lies from Quaid. She decides it's time to kick out the SOB (whose college nickname was ''Hound Dog'') and do something about her life. more...
www.boxoffice.com - : Grace (Julia Roberts) finds her life running at a busy pace. She works at a Southern horse farm, volunteers for the local charity league and tries to take care of her husband (Dennis Quaid) and daughter (Haley Aull). But overall her life seems happy -- until she chances to see her husband kissing another woman. When she confronts him later, he lies to her, so she seeks refuge with her sister (Kyra Sedgwick). Her ''perfect world'' gone, Grace must make changes if she's going to save her marriage and have her horses ready for an upcoming competition. more...
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