Afterglow (film)

Afterglow is a 1997 feature film starring Nick Nolte, Julie Christie, Lara Flynn Boyle and Jonny Lee Miller. Alan Rudolph directed and wrote the script for the film. It was produced by Robert Altman and filmed in Montreal.

Young, ambitious businessman Jeffrey Byron and his sexually frustrated wife Marianne, and older repair contractor Lucky Mann and his former Bmovie actress wife Phyllis, are unhappily married and living in Montreal, Canada. Afteryears of marriage, Phyllis tells her husband that he is not the father of their daughter and that she conceived the child via relations with attractive coactor Jack when he was away on Navy duty. Lucky is deeply shocked by this, leaving the house to reflect upon their relationship, ultimately going to the bar and drinking in excess. After coming home, Lucky rails at his wife for being unfaithful, and throws household items at her. Upon hearing his tirade, their teenage daughter Daisy leaves the house the very same night. Her absence intensifies their negative relations and Lucky and Phyllis decide to stay together on certain terms, namely sleeping in different rooms and not with one another or others. They receive a letter from Daisy in which she writes that they are not fit to be her parents and she never wants to see them again. Consequently, Lucky and Phyllis sell their house and travel to Montreal, Canada, where the letter was postmarked in order to find her though the viewer only comes to know this later in the film.Byron is working hard to provide for his family and to lead a more comfortable and luxurious life. Due to excessive work pressure and not being ready to have children, he avoids sex with his wife, who desperately wants to have a baby. One day, Byron returns from the office to find that Marianne has arranged a candlelit dinner and sweet music, having marked the dates where she is most fertile on the calendar in order to have sex with him that she can conceive a child. However, Byron plans a trip to Lake Lenore Hotel during these dates so that he can attend an important business meeting there, and so that he could spend some romantic moments with his wife. She warns him that she is going to have a baby with or without him,

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