The first part of the film really drags where a musical performer, Kevin Kline, leads an average life with wife and daughter. Along comes the new neighbors.
Kevin Spacey is in fine form as the neighbor. At once, he shows himself to be an oddball. He becomes a little too friendly with Kline and Mary Elizabeth, and when they say they're not that rich, he fakes an accident so that they can get money. All this comes at a price, he wants to swap partners. I thought I was dealing with a picture about swinging but how wrong I was.
The film really takes off when Spacey's wife is found dead and Kline, who had supposedly gone to bed with her, is the prime suspect in her murder.
While the movie becomes a murder mystery, this exciting part could have been handled a lot better. It is soon determined that Spacey had a large insurance policy out on his wife, and more shockingly, the dead woman is not his wife, and furthermore, Spacey is now carrying on with Kline's wife. All this as you can imagine is a little too hard to take.
The ending has that riveting feeling but you feel that you've gone way out of the way to get to this point.
Kevin Spacey is in fine form as the neighbor. At once, he shows himself to be an oddball. He becomes a little too friendly with Kline and Mary Elizabeth, and when they say they're not that rich, he fakes an accident so that they can get money. All this comes at a price, he wants to swap partners. I thought I was dealing with a picture about swinging but how wrong I was.
The film really takes off when Spacey's wife is found dead and Kline, who had supposedly gone to bed with her, is the prime suspect in her murder.
While the movie becomes a murder mystery, this exciting part could have been handled a lot better. It is soon determined that Spacey had a large insurance policy out on his wife, and more shockingly, the dead woman is not his wife, and furthermore, Spacey is now carrying on with Kline's wife. All this as you can imagine is a little too hard to take.
The ending has that riveting feeling but you feel that you've gone way out of the way to get to this point.