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Intersection movie storyline. Vincent Eastman is a man who after 16 years of marriage leaves his wife for another woman. Now he’s trying to decide whether to be with the woman he’s with now or to go back to his wife. While trying to decide he recalls all of the important moments: how he met his wife, how their life became mundane, and how he met the woman he’s with now. And people are trying to tell him what to do.
“Intersection” is a belated reminder of one of the unmourned genres of earlier years, the Shaggy Lover Story, in which a doomed romance is told against a backdrop of impending heartbreak. The twist at the end is supposed to send you out of the theater blowing your nose, but the people around me seemed more concerned with clearing their sinuses.
The film stars Richard Gere as an architect who is torn between two women: his wife, who is cold but uninteresting, and his lover, who is warm but uninteresting. Gere is not interesting either. The only thing these characters have to talk about are the problems manufactured for them by the screenplay. No other conversations on any other subject amount to more than filler between crises.
Richard Gere and his estranged wife Sally (Sharon Stone) are partners in an architectural firm. Their marriage, seen in laborious flashbacks, is a “business partnership,” he complains, in which she runs the business and he has the ideas. He meets a journalist named Olivia (Lolita Davidovich), falls in love, moves out on his wife and daughter, and begins to talk about the new house he will build for himself and Olivia.
But… should he? Is he still attracted to Sally? He doesn’t seem to know. Does he feel guilt about leaving his daughter? Sometimes. Does Olivia understand him? Yes. But, darn it all, things are so complicated! Martin Landau, his associate at work, tells him: “You have a wife and child in one place, a lover in another place… that’s just plain messy. Keep everything under one roof. That’s a basic rule of architecture.
Intersection is a 1994 film, directed by Mark Rydell and starring Richard Gere, Sharon Stone, Lolita Davidovich and Martin Landau. It is a remake of the French film Les choses de la vie (1970) by Claude Sautet, the story — set in Vancouver, British Columbia — concerns an architect (played by Richard Gere) who, as his classic Mercedes 280SL roadster hurtles into a collision at an intersection, flashes through key moments in his life, including his marriage to a beautiful but chilly heiress (Sharon Stone) and his subsequent affair with a travel writer (Lolita Davidovich).
The movie was a failure at the box office. It came in at #3 on its opening weekend behind Mrs. Doubtfire and Philadelphia, and went on to gross $21.3 million domestically against a $45 million budget.
Intersection (1994)
Directed by: Mark Rydell
Starring: Richard Gere, Sharon Stone, Lolita Davidovich, Martin Landau, David Selby, Jennifer Morrison, Matthew Walker, Patricia Harras, Sandra P. Grant
Screenplay by: David Rayfiel, Marshall Brickman
Production Design by: Harold Michelson
Cinematography by: Vilmos Zsigmond
Film Editing by: Mark Warner
Costume Design by: Ellen Mirojnick
Set Decoration by: Dominique Fauquet-Lemaitre
Art Direction by: Yvonne J. Hurst
Music by: James Newton Howard
MPAA Rating: R for some language and sexuality.
Distributed by: Paramount Pictures
Release Date: January 21, 1994
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