A woman's childish unrealistic demands are a road to hell in 50's era setting.

Rating: 7/10 (28 August 2009)

This drama focuses primarily on Frank and Amy Wheeler, a married couple with two children that reach a crossroads when Amy completely loses her skull on an idea about moving to Paris, France as both the ultimate life achievement to match their goals and also the most pressing and important issue in front of them as a couple. Frank is going to Paris or else this insane woman is going to make his life a living hell. Poor Frank gets dragged down by his woefully insane and melodramatic wife's unfulfilled need for .. ? What we never really know, but Amy wants it, and it's in Paris, damnit. She has no money to take the family there, no ability to work there to finance the idea, but somehow it's FRANK's fault they are not in Paris yet. This woman just gets battier and battier as the movie goes on, which is an interesting juxtaposition against the good old 50's style of conformity. If you like watching Leonardo Di Caprio argue heatedly with his utterly insane yet well spoken wife, there's a lot of scenes of that here. A lot.
Overall the characters are pretty well developed and the movie is shot well with some nice old cars, etc.. It didn't seem like they really knew how to end the movie properly; overall it was a well acted flick. The most interesting character is a fellow on leave from an insane asylum who talks with the couple.. he's essentially the voice in this Woman's head and an interesting character foil for her madness.