Married life

Seeing a review of a new film in the Times, starring Rachel McAdams, Harrison Ford and Diane Keaton, I decided to get films with McAdams. This is one. An added attraction, for me, was the presence of Chris Cooper.

Chris Cooper's character, Harry Allen, is married, but has fallen in love with Kay  Nesbitt (Rachel McAdams), herself a young widow. harry's best friend, Richard Langley (Pierce Brosnan), narrates the film and (eventually) steals Kay from Harry. Unwilling to hurt his wife, Pat (Patricia Clarkson), Harry decides to kill her by poisoning the powder she takes nightly for her regularity or headaches. However, Pat herself is having a fling with a neighbor from the country where they have a cottage.

It sort of works. Somehow, though, it feels as if Chris Cooper is not quite stretched out, though he does do a good job. Brosnan is good, as well, as are Clarkson and McAdams. Yet, there is a but...