Secrets lie between the lines.
| Cast |
Glenn Close, Jonathan Pryce, Christian Slater, Max Irons, Elizabeth McGovern, Harry LLoyd, Annie Starke, Alix Wilton Regan |
| Director |
Björn Runge |
| Screenplay | Jane Anderson, from the novel by Meg Wolitzer |
| Music | Jocelyn Pook |
| Cinematography | Ulf Brantås |
| Editing | Lena Runge |
| Made in | 2017 |
| Produced by | Tempo Productions Limited, Meta Film, Silver Reel, Spark Film & TV, Film i Väst |
IMDB page | CommonSenseMedia Report
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| Genre | Drama |
| Language | Frequent, strong impact use of crude language. |
| Nudity | None |
| Sex | None (sic) |
| Violence | Frequent, strong impact, domestic violence is realistic, psychological, verbal and emotional violence through use of insults and profanities directed at family members and people in a domestic relationship. |
| Prejudice | Low to mild impact, gender based stereotyping is experienced when Joan gives up her dreams to support her husband's writing career. |
| Blasphemy | Low to mild impact blasphemy. |
| Drug abuse | None (sic) |
| Comments | Complex and mature, strong impact, realistic themes happiness, recognition, winning the Nobel Peace Prize for Literature, family, support, love, complex relationships, obsession, discouragement, betrayal, fraud and deception, writers craft, marital infidelity, tense and difficult family relationships, a wife's resentment due to her subjugation as only an appendage to her husband, a stifled career, deception and fraud, family secrets, resentment, the long suffering wife, a woman asserting her rights and rejecting the lies, the art of writing, biographies, writing, breaking up, extramarital affairs, death, loss, truth being revealed, passion, commitment, career success, domestic abuse, family dysfunction, stained father/son relations, indiscretions, fronting, ghost-writing, and giving up your dreams for wifely duties. The themes are unsuitable for viewers under the age of 16, who will find them confusing and distressing and The themes especially scenes of realistic family feud, bitterness and disrespectful exchanges between family members, may cause moral, psychological and emotional harm on young viewers under age 16 who may not have the cognitive capacity and emotional maturity to deal with these stressful situations. |
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| R: Restricted | Rated R for language and some sexual content. |
| Runtime | 100 |
| USA version is usually but not always the same as South African release. Versions released on streaming or DVD, Blu-ray or Video may also differ. | |
| Suggested age limit 15 + |
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| Scale (Max) | 20 |  |
What the Critics say | ||
| 24.com Ilan Preskovsky  As it is, The Wife is an ultimately disappointing, underwhelming and often frustrating work with flashes of greatness and mostly excellent performances. Glenn Close alone is almost enough to make you overlook the film’s weaknesses but there’s ultimately only so much that even she can do to paper over some glaring tonal and basic storytelling flaws. | 10 |  |
| Metacritic.com 21 critics | 15 |  |
| Rottentomatoes critics 49 critics | 15 | |
| Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer The Wife relies on the strength of Glenn Close's performance to drive home the power of its story -- and she proves thoroughly, grippingly up to the task. | 19 | |
| CommonSenseMedia Michael Ordona Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes. | 10 | |
What the People say | ||
| Metacritic.com users 4 users | 16 | |
| Rottentomatoes users 368 users | 14 | |
| IMDB 458 Netizens | 15 | |
| The Movie DB Community | 20 | |
Average .. 74% | 15 | |