Taglines: No one’s ever been so good at being so bad.
Goodbye Lover movie storyline. Patricia Arquette delivers another of her unlikely temptress turns as Sandra Dunmore, an over-sexed blonde with an insatiable appetitefor, among other things, The Sound of Music. Observing something’s amiss, her husband Jake (Dermot Mulroney) is hitting the bottle big time, but he’d never guess she was screwing his own brother Ben (Don Johnson).
Ben in turn wants out, so tries it on with his improbably prim colleague Peggy Blaine (Mary-Louise Parker); the scorned Sandra is somewhat put out. Or is she? Naturally the plot’s not what it seems, twice over. Like its characters, the film operates in extreme bad faith, unloading a stream of narrative deceptions and obfuscations in an attempt to maintain what semblance of suspense the hysterical melodrama, lumpen dialogue and farcical acting still allow.
Goodbye Lover is a comedic neo-noir film about a murder plot surrounding an alcoholic advertising agency worker and his adulterous wife. The film was directed by Roland Joffé, and stars Patricia Arquette, Dermot Mulroney, Mary-Louise Parker, Ellen DeGeneres, Ray McKinnon, Alex Rocco, Don Johnson, Andre Gregory, JoNell Kennedy.
The film premiered at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival, before being released theatrically in 1999. Reshoots of the films were shot on Rodeo drive in Beverly Hills, and the ending of the film was changed. The original script was written by Ron Peer. Subsequent drafts were written by Robert Pucci, then Buck Henry. This film served as a basis of inspiration for the Bollywood film, Race.
Goodbye Lover (1999)
Directed by: Roland Joffé
Starring: Patricia Arquette, Dermot Mulroney, Mary-Louise Parker, Ellen DeGeneres, Ray McKinnon, Alex Rocco, Don Johnson, Andre Gregory, JoNell Kennedy
Screenplay by: Ron Peer, Joel Cohen, Alec Sokolow
Production Design by: Stewart Starkin
Cinematography by: Dante Spinotti
Film Editing by: William Steinkamp
Costume Design by: Theadora Van Runkle
Set Decoration by: Tessa Posnansky
Art Direction by: Bruce Alan Miller
Music by: John Ottman
MPAA Rating: R for sexuality, language and violence.
Distributed by: Warner Bros. Pictures
Release Date: April 16, 1999
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