Unfaithful
No one ever really understands why someone cheats on his or her partner. If they're unhappy, they can break up or get a divorce. If they're happy, why cheat? So when a seemingly happily married woman cheats on her husband, even with a sexy, exotic young man, we want to know why. This is the situation that Unfaithful presents. And for a good portion of the film, it's successful in demonstrating what it is about an affair that is enticing even to someone who is content in his or her relationship. In the end, however, the question of why someone would cheat is not answered. And it is the audience who is cheated.
Unfaithful is the story of Edward (Richard Gere) and Connie Sumner (Diane Lane), a happily married couple with a young son (played by Erik Per Sullivan, Dewey of “Malcom in the Middle”). Edward owns a security truck firm and Connie is his dutiful housewife. When we meet Connie