Unfaithful

Release Date: May 10, 2002

Adrian Lyne returns to the familiar territory of infidelity in marriage with this film, and the trailer makes clear to the viewer right away that we're seeing a movie from the director who brought us Fatal Attraction and Indecent Proposal. We see scenes of Richard Gere and Diane Lane's marriage, and how Diane Lane meets her paramour, a mysterious Frenchman. We also get the impression that there is violence of some sort, with shots of a butcher knife and a police car, along with Diane Lane's character asking, "What have you done?"

And that's about all the trailer tells us. So it's guaranteed to bring fans of Adrian Lyne, Richard Gere and Diane Lane into the theaters...and probably few others. The trailer really doesn't create a lot of interest in the film outside of these groups; there's nothing terribly intriguing about the storyline as presented in the trailer, a huge failing for such a primary marketing tool. Unless word-of-mouth is fantastic for the film, thus creating some buzz to see it, I suspect Unfaithful stay in the theatres will be as brief as Diane Lane's affair in the film.