A plane crash brings together a husband and a wife whose respective wife and husband, seated side-by-side on the ill-fated plane, were cheating on them. The surviving wife (Kristin Scott-Thomas, very classy) is a politician, so she wants the secret kept a secret; but the surviving husband (Harrison Ford, with a distracting porcupine haircut) is a cop, and his instincts are to burrow after the truth. A good deal of time and care has been taken, and it pays off in the agonizing early stretch when the survivors are just finding out about their losses. It seems simply squandered, however, in the endless shameless wallowing in the ambience of the Good Life: expensive clothes, cars, houses, hotels, restaurants, clubs. The rock-'em-sock-'em subplot -- an internal-affairs investigation of a homicidal vice cop -- only emphasizes, rather than relieves, the languor. Directed by Sydney Pollack. (1999) — Duncan Shepherd
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