Ari Gold in Entourage once dismissed Edith Wharton’s books as always being about the same thing – a guy wants to f*ck a girl but he can’t because those were the times. It’s a little simplistic but not without merit. Ethan is the guy here (Carl Webber), the girl is Mattie, an assistant at his farm (Geraldine Page), the reason why they can’t is he has a horrible oppressive wife who sounds old enough to be his mother. Ethan and Mattie decide to kill themselves but stuff it up and both wind up alive and crippled. The ending is the best bit about an otherwise very slow paced story, with lots of regional accent acting.
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