Drama · Romance
Afterglow
A comedy of tears…
Lucky Mann is a builder equally handy at repairs and seduction. The latest housewife to succumb to his charms is Marianne, unhappily married to corporate exec Jeffrey. When Jeffrey becomes enraptured by Lucky’s wife Phyllis, the four get caught in a love quadrangle that reignites their marriages.
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Top Cast
Nick Nolte
Lucky Mann
Julie Christie
Phyllis Hart
Lara Flynn Boyle
Marianne Byron
Jonny Lee Miller
Jeffrey Byron III
Jay Underwood
Donald Duncan
Genevieve Bissonnette
Cassie
Domini Blythe
Helene Pelletier
Yves Corbeil
Bernard Ornay
Directed by
Alan Rudolph
Production
Reviews
CinemaSerf
6/102/23/2025
“Marianne” (Lara Flynn Boyle) is sexily awaiting the return home from work of her executive husband “Jeffrey” (Jonny Lee Miller) but he just mutters something about a jockstrap and shows her little interest. Exasperated, she also needs an handyman to do some household plumbing and so alights on “Lucky” (Nick Nolte). Now he is married to “Phyllis” (Julie Christie) but isn’t averse to playing away from home now and again and so, well what now ensues rather surprised me. Not because it’s very good, but because Julie Christie took part in it. For a film that’s about relationships, possessiveness and sex it’s a shockingly sterile exercise with JLM as wooden as picket fence and Nolte just not at all convincing as the sex magnet his aptly named character would have us believe. “Phyllis” is an ers
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