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Dom Robinson reviews

The Astronaut's Wife

Imagine the face of terror
is the one you love.

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When a man you've never met before gives you flowers, that's Impulse, but when you're The Astronaut's Wife and your man's dangerous space mission goes tits-up, losing contact with NASA for a whole two minutes, that's a sign for some bizarre shit to start happening.

Spencer Armacost (Johnny Depp) and his colleague Alex Streck (Nick Cassavetes) come back very-changed men indeed. At a "welcome home" celebration party, Streck bites the big one as his body suffers a horrendous stroke. Spencer seems fine at first, but after hearing the seemingly-paranoid ramblings of the now ex-NASA suit Sherman Reese (Joe Morton), Jillian (the achingly-gorgeous Charlize Theron) begins to suspect her husband is not the man he used to be.

Jill's sister, Nan (Clea DuVall), claims early on: "Men are like parking spaces - all the good ones are taken, all the available ones are handicapped", as she's without a beau, but she soon realises she has nothing to be envious about as Spencer gets Jill up the duff and we're not sure what's lurking inside.


The picture is marred by the same artifacts that affected Magnolia which give it a very grainy look for some of the dark scenes while bright scenes look fine. It's in the original anamorphic widescreen ratio of 1.85:1 and the average bitrate is 6.21Mb/s, occasionally peaking over 8Mb/s.

Dolby Digital 5.1 is the order of the day in the sound dept. which is used to excellent effect and often, mostly in the supernatural scenes when things begin to be not of this Earth.


Extras :

A 2-minute Trailer, Cast Biographies for the four main participants, plus writer/director Rand Ravich who made his directorial debut with this film, as well as the Original Ending in non-anamorphic widescreen and Dolby Stereo, since the alternative one is attached to the end of the film. Between the two I prefer the alternative one. The original one has a touch of the cartoon strip's The Numbskulls about it...

The menus have some weird sounds to mimic parts of the film - with animation - and the 20 chapters on the disc accommodate the length well. I still can't understand why we can't have a wealth of chapters for all films from EiV though and the timings of these in the booklet are still an hour out (!)


Overall, this film does make for an entertaining near-2hrs, but it's still absolute bloody nonsense with everyone playing their part convincingly enough to warrant this a rental, if not a purchase. It's a film that's sure to find a home on Channel 5 though.

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Review copyright © Dominic Robinson, 2000.

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