Afterglow . Tucson Weekly . 03-02-98

Afterglow

DIRECTED BY: Alan Rudolph

REVIEWED: 03-02-98

Somewhere there must be a great script for Afterglow, because short stretches of brilliant dialogue show up in this otherwise intensely mediocre and cowardly film. The plot concerns a middle-aged marred man (Nick Nolte, whose new hair piece is apparently from outer space) having an affair with a young married woman (Lara Flynn Boyle, who looks so good she figures she doesn't have to do anything besides pout and flounce). Meanwhile, unbeknownst to them, their spouses carry on a parallel affair, in a story that is apparently inspired by some odd hybrid of Days of our Lives and Three's Company. Gee, I wonder if the two couples will run into each other at the bar they both frequent, and I wonder if Nolte and wife Julie Christie will ever find their long-lost daughter, and I wonder if there isn't some chance that an adult drama can be produced without using the most familiar of story elements and the safest of endings?

--DiGiovanna

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