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Directed by | Adrian Lyne |
Screenplay by | Alvin Sargent William Broyles Jr. |
Based on | The Unfaithful Wife 1969 French-Italian film by Claude Chabrol |
Produced by | Adrian Lyne G. Mac Brown |
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Cinematography | Peter Biziou |
Edited by | Anne V. Coates |
Music by | Jan A. P. Kaczmarek |
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Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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Running time | 124 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $50 million[1] |
Box office | $119.1 million |
Unfaithful is a 2002 American erotic thriller film directed and produced by Adrian Lyne and starring Richard Gere, Diane Lane, Olivier Martinez, Erik Per Sullivan, Chad Lowe, and Dominic Chianese. It was adapted by Alvin Sargent and William Broyles Jr. from the 1969 French film The Unfaithful Wife by Claude Chabrol. It tells the story of a couple living in the suburbs of New York City whose marriage goes dangerously awry when the wife indulges in an affair with a stranger she encounters by chance.
Unfaithful grossed $52 million in North America and $119.1 million worldwide. Despite mixed reviews overall, Lane received much praise for her performance. She won awards for Best Actress from the National Society of Film Critics and New York Film Critics, and was nominated for a Golden Globe and an Academy Award for Best Actress.