Similar in many respects toMoonstruck,
The Butcher's Wife is a modern-day romantic fantasy
that harkens back to the 1940s love-will-find-a-way films. An almost
unrecognizable blonde Demi Moore is a clairvoyant who can see the future of
everybody but herself, and who rashly marries a New York butcher that she
believes is her destiny. Moving with him to the big city, she sets up shop
and soon develops a large following - which begins to affect the business of a
local psychologist, who is losing patients to the clairvoyant.
Film Synopsis: Directed by Emmy Award-winner
Terry Hughes (TV's "The Golden Girls"), The Butcher's Wife stars Demi
Moore as a small town psychic who follows her heart to New York and ends
up learning that fate doesn't always get things right the first time around.
Technical
| Video: |
Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85:1 |
| Audio: |
ENGLISH: Dolby Digital 5.1 [CC]
ENGLISH: Stereo 2.0
FRENCH: Dolby Digital 5.1 |
| Subtitles: |
English, French, Closed Captions |
| Chapters: |
12 |
No great demands are placed on the video or
audio, and the transfer handles it all well. There are occasionally
rear-channel ambience effects, but the most workout the audio gets is during
Mary Steenburgen's enjoyable trio of blues ballads.
The disc is a
bare-bones affair, with 12 chapters, static menus, and no supplements save
for the now-requisite trailer; but this sort of film doesn't require - or
support - a collector's edition. Above all it's a fantasia on the
simplicity of love and fate, where the viewer's every "don't you wish that..."
appears in the plot at the proper time, and the less we know of the excruciating
details of the production, the better. Pop some popcorn, pour the wine, and enjoy it for
what it is.
