In Defense of a Married Man

TV Movie
1990
Not Rated
1h 35m

IMDb RATING

5.5/10

281

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Judith Light in In Defense of a Married Man (1990)

Crime Drama

A lawyer's husband is having an affair. When the woman he is having the affair with is found dead. He is the prime suspect. Though he adamantly proclaims his innocence. His wife takes charge... Read allA lawyer's husband is having an affair. When the woman he is having the affair with is found dead. He is the prime suspect. Though he adamantly proclaims his innocence. His wife takes charge of his defense, but can she place his betrayal behind or aside to be able provide him wit... Read allA lawyer's husband is having an affair. When the woman he is having the affair with is found dead. He is the prime suspect. Though he adamantly proclaims his innocence. His wife takes charge of his defense, but can she place his betrayal behind or aside to be able provide him with the best possible defense?

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IMDb RATING

5.5/10

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first time as a television movie composer with the improvised solos of the jazz great Stan Getz.

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The mother/lawyer is questioning her own son in their house. He says he heard the mistress and his father one night on the phone, the mistress telling his father she loved him. The mother/lawyer says "so you followed your dad the next day". The son said he did, all the way to the mistress's house. But you see earlier in the movie that the father didn't go straight to his mistress's house the next day. He went to work first, and after a while when he couldn't get his mistress's office to answer the phone, he left and went to her house. The son is saying he followed his dad from home that morning to the mistress's house, but that's not true.

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6/10

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So, the story is actually pretty good, and it keeps you interested. I love Judith Light in anything, and this is no different. Her character is nearly identical to that of Angela Bower. She's a high powered attorney instead of an ad executive, but you get the idea. It even looks like she borrowed clothes from Angela's closet for this movie. My big complaint about this movie is that she and her on screen husband have NO chemistry. He's wearing sweats and exercising for much of the time and ends up looking less like her husband and more like her son who's been scolded for being a naughty. Speaking of her son, he's played by a pre-Roseanne Johnny Galecki, who does a pretty good job too.

Anyway, I saw the movie on Netflix, so if you have that, I do recommend giving it a look!