Suddenly Single + What My Husband Doesn't Know
(One Village Entertainment/Image DVDs)
Picture: C+/C Sound: C+/B- Extras: C-/C Rating: C/C+
Now for
two more formulaic David E. Talbert releases…
Suddenly Single has the luggish Isaiah Washington as the love
interest to Garcelle Beauvais in a stage comedy about how are the problems that
separate them to be resolved. After a
few Christian references, you guess how it works out. I was bored from the start and felt6 like I
had seen this by several different people a few dozen times before. Science labs don’t; have this much formula
and it is a very weak presentation overall only aided by the female cast having
some energy and enthusiasm throughout to separate it form the usual dreck. A behind-the-scenes featurette is the only
extras.
What My Husband Doesn’t Know is somehow weaker. Lena Summer married to a rich man who is
always busy with work and not home. She
has all the money she could ever need, living in a beautiful home with a
daughter in college and a perfect life... accept from her lonely nights in her
bed, but when they pipes in her house need fixing, a young, strapping plumber
is called in. And what started out with
fixing the plumbing turns out maybe the answer to Lena's
'plumbing' problems too.
Lena is a young woman married to a rich older man, she as
everything she could ask for save for an absent husband. After countless times of diners being called
off and appointments canceled, Lena needs a
man to put the fire back into her life and when in walks a handsome young
plumber, a hot affair begins. But as
time goes on can Lena continue to hide her
double life? As friends and family watch
on will Lena be able to tell her husband or
lose everything she has?
This was
a serious drama of a story/play that/s been told too often, woman marries older
man for money, and then needs a younger man to satisfy her physical needs. There was a bit of comedy mixed in with all
the sexual innuendo joke and the musicals made it seem more light hearted. In the end however, it focused on how no one
is perfect as expected and we’ll let you figure out the rest. Extras include commentary and behind the
scenes.
Both are
anamorphically enhanced 1.78 X 1 presentations and a bit weak overall, while
the Dolby Digital 5.1 sound on both just spreads around the usual simple stereo
typical of all the past releases in this series, though Husband has the better sound recording.
- Nicholas Sheffo & Ricky Chiang
