A Dangerous Woman (1993 film)

A Dangerous Woman is a 1993 film directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal. The screenplay was written by his then wife Naomi Foner, loosely based on the award winning novel of the same name by Mary McGarry Morris. The feature was coproduced by Amblin Entertainment and Gramercy Pictures and stars Debra Winger, Barbara Hershey, Gabriel Byrne and Gyllenhaal and Foners two children, Jake and Maggie Gyllenhaal, both of whom would later go into acting.

Martha Horgan Winger struggles to have a normal life in spite of being mentally challenged. She is fired from a job at the local drycleaners after accusations of stealing from the cash register, something she believes the boyfriend of her work colleague Birdie Chloe Webb has been doing.Depressed, she returns to the home of Aunt Frances Hershey and discovers that a handyman Gabriel Byrne, looking for work in any capacity, has been hired to fix the porch of the main house before the residence hosts a gala event for a local politician. The politicians wife Laurie Metcalf has damaged the porch by driving a car into it, irate over her husbands affair with Frances. ........

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