The Wife
USA | 1995 | 101 min
Jack (Tom Noona) and Rita (Julie Hagerty) are husband-and-wife therapists, trapped in a fragile marriage and sharing a practice out of their remote Vermont farmhouse. One night, a patient, Cosmo (Wallace Shawn), unexpectedly drops by for dinner with his outrageously candid wife, Arlie (Karen Young), who wants to know what secrets her husband is sharing with Jack and Rita. What follows is a delirious evening of shattering revelations, as each couple is forced to confront the fault lines in their own relationships.
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DIR Tom Noonan
SCR Tom Noonan
CAST Danny Darrow, Julie Hagerty, Tom Noonan, Wallace Shawn, Karen Young Nominated, 1995 Sundance Film Festival – Grand Jury Prize Dramatic
The Wife is exhibit A for how our alumni can take advantage of #ArtistServices for distribution opportunities. Tom Noonan’s layered, darkly realistic story of two couples bickering over one night of heavy drinking, is making its digital premiere 17 years after it first screened for Park City audiences. When Tom told me that distribution rights had reverted back, I knew it would be the perfect title to help launch our new initiative.
—Chris Horton, Sundance Institute
