Something to Talk About

In this comedy drama, a cheating husband’s life becomes a living hell after his spunky wife catches him fooling around. Eddie’s wife is Grace, and though she is absent minded and flighty, she is neither a fool, nor a doormat. When she spies him making nice-nice with a sassy blonde, she promptly makes a big scene so the whole town will know that she married a grade A louse. Grace’s father Wyly King, the owner of the posh King Farms horse ranch and a Prominent Citizen in town, is not amused when he hears of his daughter’s scandalous antics. But his disapproval doesn’t stop the vengeful Grace from making more trouble at the Charity League when she publicly announces the names of all the town’s philanderers and their girl friends. She later tries to poison Eddie via fish sauce, and while talking with her long-suffering mother, Georgia, accidentally slips and tells her mother about her own husband’s extra-marital activities. The normally gentle Georgia is so enraged that she gives pompous, self-righteous Wyly the boot. Grace and Eddie’s situation is not helped by her sister who tosses cutting verbal darts at Eddie every time she sees him. But in time, Grace and Eddie begin to come together again and happiness ensues., Southern stable manager Grace sees her husband kissing a mystery blonde and realises he’s been cheating on her for years. Her parents advise her to make up, but instead Grace moves in with her feisty sister., Julia Roberts heads a fine ensemble cast in this genial 1995 comedy. She plays Grace Bichon, a Southerner who spots her husband (Dennis Quaid) kissing another woman. Disgusted and fed up, she flees her home and moves in with her rich father and mother. Robert Duvall, Gena Rowlands, Kyra Sedgwick., Romantic comedy in which a Southern woman discovers her husband is cheating on her but is unable to sever her ties to him because of their business partnership, Romantic comedy in which a Southern woman discovers that her husband has been cheating on her and throws him out of the house. But he is heavily involved in the family business, so domestic difficulties are not so easily resolved., Julia Roberts finds her husband is having an affair and goes to stay with her family, but she soon finds their advice to be far from what she expected.