An exploration of love's intricacies in both its brightest and darkest corners, alternately tragic and humorous. The film is set in the aristocratic beach enclave of East Hampton, New York, and covers one important summer in the life of famed children's book author Ted Cole (Jeff Bridges) and his beautiful wife Marion. It is adapted on John Irving's best-selling novel A Widow for One Year (Kim Basinger). Tragic events have strained their once-fantastic marriage. The couple has been unable to confront a much-needed change in their relationship as a result of her melancholy and his subsequent infidelity. Ted's summer assistant, Eddie O'Hare, is the couple's naive but eager pawn-and, eventually, the cause for their lives' metamorphosis.
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An exploration of love's intricacies in both its brightest and darkest corners, alternately tragic and humorous. The film is set in the aristocratic beach enclave of East Hampton, New York, and covers one important summer in the life of famed children's book author Ted Cole (Jeff Bridges) and his beautiful wife Marion. It is adapted on John Irving's best-selling novel A Widow for One Year (Kim Basinger). Tragic events have strained their once-fantastic marriage. The couple has been unable to confront a much-needed change in their relationship as a result of her melancholy and his subsequent infidelity. Ted's summer assistant, Eddie O'Hare, is the couple's naive but eager pawn-and, eventually, the cause for their lives' metamorphosis.
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