Details

Release year: 1990

Storyline

Joey Boca (Kevin Kline) owns a pizza parlor, and is married to Rosalie (Tracey Ullman). He's also a serial womanizer. Rosalie goes to extremes when she finds he has been cheating.

Top credits

Directors

Lawrence Kasdan

Writers

John Kostmayer

Cast

Kevin Kline — Joey
Tracey Ullman — Rosalie
William Hurt — Harlan
Joan Plowright — Nadja

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Did you know

• Loosely based on the true story of Frances Toto and her four unsuccessful attempts to kill her cheating husband, Anthony Toto, in Allentown, Pennsylvania in 1984. Anthony spent four days in bed after being drugged and shot by Frances and her friends; who spent four years in prison after pleading guilty to attempted murder. The Turner Classic Movies website states that this movie's "story was inspired by events in the lives of Anthony and Frances Toto and Barry Giacobe."

• Phoebe Cates: Uncredited, as the girl Joey picks up at the disco. Joey is played by Kevin Kline, who is married to Cates in real life.

• First time co-starring for River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves, who forged a strong friendship the previous year when Reeves was making Parenthood (1989), in which he played alongside Phoenix's off-screen girlfriend Martha Plimpton and his younger brother Joaquin Phoenix. Reeves and Phoenix began talks with Gus Van Sant during filming and subsequently starred in My Own Private Idaho (1991). Reeves and Heather Graham would also reunite in Gus Van Sant's Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1993), which starred River's sister Rain and was dedicated to River.