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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 0808630241431 Format: Color, NTSC Label: Starlight Video Manufacturer: Starlight Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Starlight Video Release Date: December 30, 2003 Running Time: 89 minutes Sales Rank: 80528 Studio: Starlight Video Theatrical Release Date: August 16, 1999
Description: Dot (Park Overall), a wife and mother, refuses to play the victim when her husband of 18 years leaves her for his secretary (Laura Innes). Using an obscure North Carolina law known as "alienation of affection", that was designed to protect husbands and wives from home wreckers, she sues her husband's mistress for $1 million in damages. Based on a true story. Drama. 91 Minutes.
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Rating: - The Alienation Of Affection Law Versus Homewreckers
This movie was about a law called "Alienation Of Affection" which shows how to get even with mistresses and philanderers who deliberately break up other peoples marriages. In this case, it was about a secretary named [Lynne Cox], and an insurance salesman named [Joe Hutelmyer], who ended up having an alleged affair for three years. At the insurance company where they worked, all their co-workers found out, and Joe's wife, Dot found out through info of a P.I. (suggested by a friend of Dot's), and also from the co-workers. So, as a result, [Joe and Lynne] were thrown out of the company. Dot then ... Read More
