Un homme de rêve

Steven Schachter knows how to tell a story and keep up the appearances of a rich, good-looking man who surprisingly develops into a criminal. Step by step you discover the real Mitch Parker (Jeff Fahey) behind the curtain. Not only he deceives his second wife Liz Wells (Kim Cattrall) by being at the same time in the same town (!) with two women, but also his friends among whom there is a senator (Bob Belding played by John Sumner). The movie keeps up the realistic touch until the end and you feel that the script-writer (Martin Davidson and others based on a novel by Karen Kingsbury) and the director want to deliver us a message: never trust people who talk too well and too much.

This is a very good film, and one with which I can identify totally. The man I met, shortly after my 20 year unhappy marriage, was much like the man portrayed in this film, based upon true story. Mine ended with trying to extricate myself from him, calling police numerous times about stalking, ending in him breaking into my house trying to shoot me. The gun jammed, otherwise I'd be dead. After this episode, I educated myself about narcissistic personality disorder. The man I knew fit ALL the characteristics.

OK, so a guy ends up married to two women. The women, who are both smart, attractive, and successful, are utterly clueless about his double life. He practically does handstands and jumps through hoops to keep up the deception. A potentially amusing situation in other stories. But in this case, the rapid turn of events crescendoes to such a tragic outcome that the viewer feels slammed by a jolting deceleration, from any humor, to horror.

Every Woman's Dream is a very interesting story. If it were true, who were the characters upon whom it was based. Would love to know more about what happened to the character of Mitch - is he still on death row? What happened to his first wife, Candy? Does anyone know? Did this story take place in Florida and California? There are probably thousands of self-centered narcissists like Mitch and it is an important movie for all women to watch. No man is that perfect and it is surprising that his first wife took so long to figure out that he was such a liar. The movie starts out by claiming it is a true story, but I don't recall ever hearing anything about this. What about the senators and congressmen with whom Mitch had dealings? What happened to them?

I found it kind of boring...then narration...and in the beginning especially, the filming wasn't all that great. It's the type of movie that you could probably watch when you're at home, and there's nothing great on TV. It's about this man, Mitch Parker, who's leading a double life. He married a woman (with two children from a previous relationship), and marries another woman (whom he has met on a plane, played by Kim Cattrall from "Sex and the City"). He lies, cheats and cons people. The reason the movie was boring was because the filming was dull. For a movie made in 1997, it looked like something made in the early 90's (to me, anyway). I got so bored with it that near the end, I didn't really want to watch it anymore.