Engagements and marriages are beginning to replace adulterous plot twists.
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The donor had impregnated the model in an adulterous affair.
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This adulterous pair are plotting to kill the baby's father, John.
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He wore flamboyant, dandyish outfits and conducted ostentatiously public adulterous affairs.
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It almost de-legitimizes the [adulterous] relationship that they've found out about.
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Singer Billy Paul's song about an adulterous affair earned him a Grammy.
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So what is driving this anger towards Hillary and her adulterous husband?
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His adulterous black book included Connie Hamzy, Gennifer Flower and Dolly Kyle.
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"Did you ask Jill about her promiscuous and adulterous behavior yet?" inquired another.
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You're a thrice-married adulterous p—y-grabbing 6 times bankrupt scam artist.
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For each adulterous act in Taiwan, you're sentenced to four months in jail.
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I didn't have any specific or adulterous plans; I was just wholly open.
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R.A. moll, adulterous hussy—than does a girl who reads while she walks.
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A betrayal by the clergy is much like that of an adulterous spouse.
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According to ancient Roman mythology, Venus and Mars engaged in an adulterous affair.
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In that story, a man contrives the "accidental" death of his adulterous wife.
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Other letters reveal how distraught Plath was at discovering her husband's adulterous relationships.
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Much of this is venting about husbands' emotional distance, flagging libido or adulterous tendencies.
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Lawyers pointed to possible adulterous affairs with four women, according to the Washington Post.
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Outside of condemning adulterous behavior, Christ never said anything about whom you could love.
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The fact that adulterous Stan can sleep better in his suburban home is an afterthought.
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John Quincy Adams called his mother a murderer and his wife an adulterous or something.
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To Catholics, non-sacramental Protestant marriages were adulterous and Protestant children were – in effect -- bastards.
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Over the course of five seasons, Gretchen has been suicidal, adulterous, catatonic, manic, and mean.
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His adulterous affair with Maria Reynolds produced the first great sex scandal in American politics.
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In 1924, Velma Kelly killed her adulterous husband and Roxie Hart shot her lying boyfriend.
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Among people under the age of 40, women are apparently just as adulterous as men.
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The slur has its roots in the concept of cuckolding, or having an adulterous partner.
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Bey edged out her (allegedly adulterous) husband at #34, individually, by bringing in $54 million.
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Helen's John spoke of "adulterous women" and the age-old sectarian violence of Celtic and Rangers.
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He had an adulterous affair at some point, and at another went through a bitter divorce.
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That's because, outside of condemning adulterous behavior, Christ never said anything about whom you could love.
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That is, until Livingston's shock resignation and admission that he had engaged in his own adulterous affairs.
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A motorcycle courier speeds away from an adulterous liaison toward an appointment in a downtown high-rise.
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The protagonist is Patsy Carpenter, a 24-year-old quick-tongued married woman full of adulterous longing.
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Some spurious tales claim the act had roots in a shaming ritual for adulterous women in medieval Japan.
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"Since then, [Stephen] has neither altered his behavior towards [Allison] nor ended his adulterous affair," the complaint said.
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The friend comes home and discovers the adulterous pair together, and jumps out the window to his death.
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It also sets out punishment for unmarried people engaging in displays of affection, adulterous relationships and underage sex.
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Not only did Harris fail to delete anything, he engaged in more "terribly incriminating, nasty, adulterous stuff," Kilgore said.
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Of course she would never want to employ a woman who's happily leaving adulterous love puddles on her chair.
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Its portrayal of adulterous sex and a woman's sexual awakening disturbed both evangelicals and some respected literary figures, too.
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She grows closer to her psychic aunt as she explores killing her adulterous father (Samuel L. Jackson) with voudou.
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Except for the adventurous (or adulterous) few, we carry out relationships in distinct succession, like beads on a string.
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So here you are, long after the discovery of a liaison that, if not adulterous, was certainly adulter-ish.
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Even with the occasional ratings bump created by frenzied coverage of adulterous romps, CNN struggles to find an audience.
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Louisa Proske directs this story about an adulterous woman tangled in a sanguineous web of lust, ambition and corruption.
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Angel knows she is a character in this adulterous saga, so she isn't worried about whether she matters in it.
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Gates, they said, had embezzled to fund his "secret life" in London, which included an apartment and an adulterous liaison.
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Victims are taunted for being adulterous, for being sodomised, and (in one case with an illustration) for being crypto-Persian.
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It also sets out punishment for sex crimes, unmarried people engaging in displays of affection, adulterous relationships and underage sex.
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On October 9th Wayne Grudem, an influential theologian who had endorsed the adulterous nominee, said he hoped Mr Trump would quit.
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Even by the adulterous standards of the ornithological world, though, the red-backed fairy-wren, an Australian bird, is a champion.
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You give little weight to the cost to the adulterous father of the revelation, evidently because he was in the wrong.
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Low Fidelity Given your penchant for love stories that flirt with high style, I suggest two piercing accounts of adulterous love.
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Bryant admitted to having an adulterous sexual encounter with the 19-year-old but claimed he viewed the incident as consensual.
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For years, few adulterous women managed to escape such calamities as prostitution or losing a child or driving off a cliff.
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The shooting, Kenneth said in the lawsuit, was a "sadistic attack by the adulterous wife on her husband," the Journal News reports.
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When it becomes clear "hang out" is a euphemism for adulterous sex, James freaks out, because it seems like nothing actually happened.
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Instead they made sweaty, adulterous love to the stage for 60 minutes every night and forgot to call it in the morning.
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Prosecutors objected before Gates had a chance to respond to Downing's suggestion and no further questions were asked about his adulterous behavior.
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At the end of January he issued a strong reprimand to anyone who interpreted the new teaching as offering communion to the "adulterous".
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It's easy to forget about the former attorney general and governor, ever since Anthony Weiner displaced him as New Yorkers' favorite adulterous politician.
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In a risky move for a thrice-married adulterous nominee, Trump is making a full-on pivot to the former president's sexual misbehavior.
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The adulterous lovers are here embodied by Mr. Law and the Dutch actress Halina Reijn — hotly in his case and coolly in hers.
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" Her guilty plea acknowledged little that was substantive about the case: It did not stipulate, for example, that Anna's adulterous affair with "D.
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The staging briefly, barely suggests that these members of "Jungleland: Strange Beings From Every Clime" incite the lovers to their adulterous sexual adventures.
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While in France, Tessin also bought what was then the hottest of contemporary art: Rococo paintings of pale-necked maidens and adulterous gods.
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Those affected, some tragically, by these choices include a young home health aide, an adulterous trucker, and a volatile trio of German antiquities dealers.
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Women, whose adulterous options have historically been limited by domesticity and economic dependence, have entered the workforce and discovered new vistas of romantic temptation.
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The billionaire was motivated by having his sexuality exposed, and the case he paid for involved the publication of a stolen adulterous sex tape.
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In an alleged transcript of a phone conversation between the adulterous couple, the public learned that the Prince yearned to be his ladylove's tampon.
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After an interim in Paris, where they're both drawn into adulterous temptations, they move to southern France to forge a new life as winemakers.
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Two decades ago, five House Democrats voted to impeach President Bill Clinton on charges stemming from his adulterous affair with a White House intern.
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And if that could help explain why Mrs Clinton never forsook her adulterous husband, something her critics also object to, there have been stranger marriages.
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Eventually, he landed the highest-grossing indie film of 2008 ($33 million) with Fireproof, the story of an adulterous fireman desperate to save his marriage.
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As Russell and Corrine continue to be many shades too smart for the life they're leading, expensive crises — adulterous and financial — befall everyone around them.
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But the subject matter — an unabashed celebration of erotic desire and dreams of immortality, and a story of adulterous love — was hardly suitable for Lent.
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These conditions, of adulterous marital strife and abundant crystal meth, begat The Sebadoh, the semi-eponymous 1999 record that would lead to the namesake band's undoing.
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They seem moderately happy, and Frank is incredibly sweet for a man dealing with an adulterous pregnancy and a wife who clearly doesn't love him anymore.
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De Toth said the film's adulterous hero was a problem for the Production Code, and the mandated reconciliation at the end is emotionally complex yet inconclusive.
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Then a devout Christian, Bazan's rich baritone told stories of hypocritical politicians, adulterous husbands, and self-righteous people of faith, challenging the band's largely evangelical fanbase.
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Mr. Grantham's unscrupulous, adulterous character ran a pub with his wife, Angie, and their tempestuous relationship was central to many of the show's most dramatic plots.
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In the part I just finished, they are on summer vacation on the island of Ischia, where Lila, recently married (too young), embarks on an adulterous affair.
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But he faced intense resistance from conservatives, who pointed out that this reform risked evacuating the church's teaching that sacramental marriages are indissoluble and second marriages adulterous.
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When will we tire of the damaged, entitled, drunk, stylish, adulterous and increasingly marginalized whites who merely accessorize a continent of more than a billion black Africans?
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He's possibly seeing a famous ballerina on the sly and he's definitely growing a beard while touring the world with his adulterous best friend, Mike Parker (Daniel Ings).
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They then embraced Trump, who bragged about his adulterous ways, said he never asked God for forgiveness, then was caught on video bragging about casually sexually assaulting women.
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I know this firsthand, having attended the funerals of women who died from sepsis and women who died at the hands of partners enraged by an adulterous pregnancy.
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A similar case was unsuccessfully brought against the former Senator John Edwards for payments he made to keep an adulterous affair secret while he was running for president.
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Grantham&aposs unscrupulous, adulterous character ran the Queen Vic pub with his wife, Angie, and their tempestuous relationship was central to many of the soap&aposs most dramatic plots.
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If Twin Peaks hadn't reconceived McGill as an adulterous small-town businessman, could he have become a creature-feature staple along the lines of Boris Karloff or Doug Bradley?
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Yet in November four out of five of these decorous, Bible-loving Christians voted for an adulterous reality-television star who has said he has never sought divine forgiveness.
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She pillories Mrs Clinton for staying married to Bill Clinton in spite of his well-documented adulterous escapades, which, as a woman, she can do without being called sexist.
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At the Family Romance company in Tokyo, 1,200 actors stand ready to impersonate, for a price, a child's absent father, for years on end, or a wife's adulterous lover.
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Ongoing financial support of one partner by the other is rare in France and Texas—and ruled out in another American state, Georgia, if the spouse seeking support was adulterous.
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At the house, Ramona begins explaining she knew her marriage with adulterous ex-husband Mario Singer was "in trouble" when he left his wedding ring at home to play tennis.
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I tilted it a few times, holding my breath, and wondered how the spirits iced in that vessel had influenced government decisions, adulterous affairs and urges to fight fatal duels.
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That includes activities in broadcast control rooms, offices, bedrooms, boardrooms and even a restaurant where a pair of adulterous lovers conduct a cool quickie in full view of their fellow diners.
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The exhibition includes artist-couples of every flavor: same-sex, polyamorous, gender-fluid, interracial, semi-incestuous, faithful, adulterous, life-long, fleeting, collaborative, competitive, open, jealous, loving, and perhaps overly intense, or abusive.
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Perel is more sanguine than others about the capacity of a marriage to withstand adulterous lapses, but her belief in coupledom—her commitment to the idea of commitment—is never in doubt.
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They are asked not only to forgo the presumption of their own moral superiority but to consider and empathize with what has been meaningful, liberating, or joyous about their partners' adulterous experiences.
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Five days before Election Day in 1872, Victoria and Tennessee published a story alleging that a prominent preacher named Henry Beecher had engaged in an adulterous affair with one of his parishioners.
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That's why you can be an anti-abortion Republican congressman but still hold the apparent view that abortion rights extend solely and secretly to the women with whom you have had adulterous sex.
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Nothing else we read delights so explicitly in adulterous sex, explosive farts, and practical jokes involving the anus — all the while critiquing church and society and written by the father of English poetry.
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He explained to the group why Jefferson called his executive residence "the president's house" and not the White House, and why Dickens particularly appreciated the biblical story of Jesus and the adulterous woman.
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On Tuesday, a bipartisan group of Alabama lawmakers announced impeachment proceedings will begin in response to allegations that the Republican governor, serving his second term, had an adulterous affair with former staffer Rebekah Mason.
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Yet if January had been stormy, March would bring another torrent of sordid headlines, now belonging to Karen McDougal, whose accusations of an adulterous affair with Donald Trump were far more personal and detailed.
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That is only appropriate for a play inspired by perhaps the ultimate novel of American guilt, "The Scarlet Letter," Nathaniel Hawthorne's much-studied tale of the adulterous Hester Prynne of 17th-century New England.
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In the aftermath of the rumors of sexual misconduct, allegations of sexual assault and confirmed adulterous behavior by the former President (who left office with a high approval rating, just the same), the country changed.
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Rather than accusing the adulterous bride described in the song of failing to close the door, Brendon Urie, Ryan Ross, and Spencer Smith are accusing her of not even understanding how to close a door.
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The Layla-Majnun romance is contemporaneous with the tales of courtly but adulterous love (Lancelot and Guinevere, Tristan and Yseult, Troilus and Criseyde) that pervaded the culture of Western Europe during the age of chivalry.
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The Cohens are academics and poets who like to talk about art and true love and the nature of time; the Barlows are lawyers who like to discuss current events and gossip about their adulterous affairs.
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During the 2000 election, for example, Republican frontrunner John McCain was the target of an anonymous smear campaign that his wife was a drug addict and their adopted child was born out of an adulterous affair.
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Fan said she hoped the film's title, taken from 19th century author Gustave Flaubert's novel "Madame Bovary" about an adulterous woman who embarks on affairs to escape her mundane country life, would help draw audiences in.
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Her character, Joan, has reason to be displeased, confronted by an adulterous husband, Tom (Sean Campion), whom she has come to revile, and finding scant support from a daughter (unseen) who has fled the family nest.
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Impersonating bogus, soon-to-be-married sweethearts, Robert and Kathy have to act like a couple in love, and they do it so convincingly you occasionally wonder if Robert is about to turn crooked and adulterous.
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"A Married Woman," which could also have been titled "La Chienne," was known as "The Married Woman," until French censors insisted that Mr. Godard shift his portrait of an adulterous wife from the general to the specific.
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Maybe, while they're sharing, Donald entertains them with stories about how he used to encourage New York City tabloids to run headlines about his adulterous relationships, and his fantastic ability to grab women by their private parts.
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In her 2010 divorce complaint, Ms. Moore accused Mr. Moore of "emotional and psychological abuse" during their 20-year marriage, and accused him of carrying on an adulterous relationship that he was "neither discreet nor inconspicuous" about.
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So many of the book's difficult women are caught in unhappy marriages and find release by having rough, adulterous sex that as well-rendered as each individual portrait might be, taken as a whole, they tend to blur.
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For a group that regularly preaches about the "sanctity of marriage" and inveighs against the evils of divorce, it was a major political puzzle to me when evangelicals first backed the thrice-married, adulterous Trump over Hillary Clinton.
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I needed one of their husbands to disappear on a fishing trip for 10 weeks so a certain adulterous affair could take place, but I had found out that fishing boats would never have stayed out for that long.
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If you'll recall, James made quite the splash at SUR back in May (before filming commenced) when he rapped about Jax's adulterous tryst with former SURver Faith Stowers during one of his See You Next Tuesday sets in front of Brittany.
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One of the more gratifying lessons of late-20th-century history was how many of the Republicans voting to impeach Bill were soon exposed as adulterers (and worse) themselves, including a rarely spotted American subspecies, the adulterous female politician (Rep.
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Trashed by critics after its release, the film has since been lauded as technically groundbreaking and thematically ahead of its time, as it revolves around the then-taboo subject of an interracial love triangle—and an adulterous one at that.
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That position, more or less, seems to be that second marriages may be technically adulterous, but it's unreasonable to expect modern people to realize that, and even more unreasonable to expect them to leave those marriages or practice celibacy within them.
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Let me try again: It's the fierceness itself, the gusto with which banal human problems—an awful mother or a philandering husband, adulterous longings or a schoolgirl crush—are heightened into glamour and tragedy, that is the soul of melodrama.
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It focuses on an adulterous husband, Michel (Alexander Hanson), who contributes to a web of deceit that ensnares all four of the sharply observed characters, none of whom can be relied upon to be telling the truth at any given time.
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Over the years, he has questioned the fitness of adulterous parents, championed the role of religion in public life and criticized gay people in stark terms, making himself a hero of the Christian right and a proud antagonist of the left.
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They make a cynical, race-baiting, adulterous campaign-finance fraudster like Dinesh D'Souza a rich man after he abandons an intellectual career for a Michael Moore-imitating grift — and then cheer when Trump pardons D'Souza because it owns the libs.
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"All of those nights that he's given to me/I wish I could give them back to you," Cam offers, in a kind of adulterous humblebrag, over an arrangement that's closer to the E Street Band than to Loretta Lynn.
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In a rant that comes across like a profane, adulterous, extremely sexist version of Hannibal Buress's "Get yourself together, man" hipster self-help monologue from "The Eric Andre Show," Rhoades père instructs Taiga on the finer points of maintaining a marriage.
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According to a report by the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement, which examined the divorce records, Trump invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination approximately a hundred times when Ivana's lawyers asked him about adulterous relations with other women.
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The subsequent "Better Be Good to Me" emerges as a directive from the increasingly self-aware Tina that Ike (Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, lending real heft to a potentially one-dimensional role) had better cry off his adulterous, abusive ways or take a hike.
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Under current Church teaching they cannot receive communion unless they abstain from sex with their new partner, because their first marriage is still valid in the eyes of the Church and they are seen to be living in an adulterous state of sin.
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She told me that Matt Miller, who conceived and directed the Teachers web series, had heard on a podcast that according to a study, teachers are the most admired of all professions, but are also perceived to be the most devious and adulterous.
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Under Church law they cannot receive communion unless they abstain from sex with their new partner, because their first marriage is still valid in the eyes of the Church and therefore they are seen to be living in an adulterous state of sin.
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The mentor's tendency to trust talented actors and allow them to work their magic informed the mentee's collaboration with Julie Christie and Nick Nolte, who play an older married couple tempted by adulterous affairs with younger, richer spouses played by Boyle and Jonny Lee Miller.
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" The filing said Moore began what was "by his own admission ... a romantic adulterous relationship" with a woman, and that he once said to the Moores' children in front of Allison: "I have two women, and what's really bad is when they fight over you.
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It's obviously possible that shortly after his third wife gave birth to his fifth child, Donald Trump began the one and only adulterous affair of his life and then had his longtime lawyer/fixer write Daniels a six-figure check to shut her up.
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Born in 1946 to well-off parents in Yugoslavia under Tito's Communist regime, Abramović claims she became an artist to get away from her mother's cold, abusive attitude, an absent, adulterous father, and the oppressive, gray sameness that engulfed most of her Slavic peers.
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And the featurists were running out of people to write about — running out of alcoholic actors, ne'er-do-well royals, depressive comedians, jailed rock stars, defecting ballet dancers, reclusive film directors, hysterical fashion models, indigent marquises, adulterous golfers, wife-beating footballers and rapist boxers.
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The four central characters mingle and separate, migrating from sexual partnerships to platonic friendships, from marital unions to adulterous affairs and back again, just as their interactions morph from face-to-face talk over dinner and in bed to virtual exchanges over cellphones and email.
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By buying their way into the churches, private schools, and public radio antennae of millions of Americans, by decimating public institutions and any semblance of media neutrality, these wealthy conservatives had prepared millions of fundamentalists to support a habitually adulterous, pathologically dishonest reality television personality.
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Jackson, his partner Fran Walsh, and fellow New Zealand weirdos Danny Mulheron and Stephen Sinclair collaborated on a screenplay that weaves together about half a dozen subplots; the most prominent involves the talented hippopotamus Heidi, whose lover (and the troupe's impresario) Bletch is cruelly dismissive and adulterous.
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At best, Faith, who has sporadically appeared on the Bravo reality series over the years, could expect concocting a story about some adulterous hookup could net her some new screen time, but, again it would be for the worst reason and put her in the world light.
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Conservatives contest that the Pope is tinkering with what is written in the Bible and has been affirmed throughout centuries in the Catholic Church on marriage: that a divorced person who is remarried without an annulment may not receive communion, because the second marriage is considered adulterous.
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Yet, the defense counsel in Paul Manafort's trial seems resolute in its efforts to discredit Rick Gates by painting him as an adulterous, immoral, unethical and corrupt liar in the hopes that the jury's disdain for his character will fatally undermine his credibility as a testifying witness.
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I couldn't identify the iconography — no doubt scholars have theories about it — but I wonder if the pair is the adulterous Paulo and Francesca da Rimini, whom Giotto's compatriot Dante depicted as doomed to keep each other's eternal company in the second circle of the Inferno.
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This little-known curio stars Walter Huston as a corrupt, apathetic and adulterous president who, after nearly losing his life in an accident, undergoes a humanistic change of heart, becoming an all-powerful but benevolent leader under the tutelage of the titular angel and, ahem, Abraham Lincoln.
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Bob Livingston is back; hypocritical lawmaker from Clinton impeachment makes cameo Students of relatively recent impeachment history will recall that a main backer of impeaching Bill Clinton for his adulterous affair was Bob Livingston, heir apparent to Newt Gingrich, who was leaving his role as House Speaker in 1998.
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He was nominated for three Academy Awards for best supporting actor, for playing Abe Karatz in Francis Coppola's "Tucker" in 1988; the adulterous husband Judah Rosenthal in Woody Allen's "Crimes and Misdemeanors" in 1989; and the aging horror movie star Bela Lugosi in Tim Burton's "Ed Wood" in 1994.
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His bigotry, his boasting, his lies, his pride, his scams of the vulnerable, his worship of materialism, his insults of the dead, his turning a blind eye to refugees, his bragging of adulterous behavior, his treatment of "the least" among us — all of this is antithetical to Christian philosophy.
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He had a talent for blaming bloopers on others: he insisted David Mellor, an adulterous MP, decided on an embarrassing photo-op with his family; the unpopular idea to serve Spam fritters to mark the 50th anniversary of D-Day was "suggested by the Royal Marines, not us".
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Matthew Lillard popping up as an adulterous high school principal suspected of Davenport's murder seemed like a lovely parallel to Leland Palmer, but the way that entire story thread (perhaps) ended — Snakeskin Cooper killing the principal's wife and leaving town — has me wondering if they're going in an entirely different direction.
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In these stories, Williams takes the familiar scripts of realist fiction (adulterous love triangles, disobedient children, dying parents), cuts them up, and then rearranges a few choice scraps until a scenario emerges, a sketch that is at once more ambiguous and more forthright than a more detailed story would be.
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Trump makes a cameo, when he's interviewed in the early 1990s saying that Clinton is a good woman and should stay married to her adulterous husband, but "Trumpland" is mostly free of Trump, who Moore seems to see as a vessel for the anger and worry white Americans feel about their future.
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This year, Moore noted, Christian leaders who in the 1990s gave stem-winding speeches about "character" in office during the Clinton administration now minimize the spewing of profanities in campaign speeches, race-baiting and courting white supremacists, boasting of adulterous affairs, debauching public morality and justice through the casino and pornography industries.
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David parties with his (adulterous) best friend while coveting Sophie, he shoves his own girlfriend away when she finds herself in the midst of an existential crisis, and while he puts his job above everything else, he truly doesn't know anything about his colleagues or his boss, played by Vice co-founder Gavin McInnes.
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And not just the urgent physical event of adulterous sex — though that's wonderfully well described, shot through with guilt and risk and yet presented entirely without mawkishness or sentimentality — but also its interminable emotional navigations and negotiations, the deceit and the guilt, the quotidian tug of war between desire and (in Bonnie's case anyway) loneliness.
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Cuarón's latest film and only his eighth feature overall as a director, Roma is a semi-autobiographical look at a flustered upper-class Mexico City family in the early 1970s, who are reeling from the departure of their adulterous patriarch and leaning on the quiet but steady support of their live-in maid, Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio).
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The Mannon women — the adulterous Christine (Stephanie Weeks) and her daughter, Lavinia (Eunice Wong), who is unhealthily close to her father — await the return of their men from battle: the patriarch, Ezra (Satya Bhabha), and the wounded son, Orin (also Mr. Bhabha), who is as creepily drawn to his mother as his sister is to their father.
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This series of events turns out to be only a particularly rococo Parisian instance of what happens again and again in this history: a seeming national advance in intelligence is squandered through crossbred confusion, political rivalry, mutual bureaucratic suspicions, intergovernmental competition, and fear of the press (as well as leaks to the press), all seasoned with dashes of sexual jealousy and adulterous intrigue.
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Ruth Wilson may be best known for her portrayal of an adulterous woman in everyone's favorite guilty pleasure watch, The Affair, and for her turn as the psychopathic love interest of Idris Elba in Luther, but the actress is currently at the Toronto International Film Festival to promote a very different kind of movie role in the haunted house drama I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House.
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She both obsesses over The Pickwick Papers—a picaresque novel like her own—and riffs on her dislike of A.S. Byatt's best-seller Possession: As I skimmed it my face was contorted by sneers, and after skipping to the end to make sure the heroine really was the direct descendant of the vigorously adulterous dead poets and heiress to their fortunes, I resolved to write a novel myself.
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Where to stream: Amazon Five years before he slipped into the Spidey suit for Sam Raimi, Tobey Maguire delivered his breakthrough performance as Paul Hood, a disaffected teenager who comes home from boarding school to spend Thanksgiving in Connecticut with his dysfunctional upper-middle-class family—an adulterous dad (Kevin Kline), bored housewife mom (Joan Allen), and Watergate-obsessed/sexually adventurous sister (Christina Ricci)—who are each so caught up in their imagined pathos that it takes a bona fide tragedy for them to realize how lucky they are.
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Or attend to the work and life of Chekhov, the good nonbelieving doctor who asserted that his "holy of holies" was the human body, the writer whose adulterous characters in "The Lady with the Little Dog" stop to look at the sea near Yalta and are reminded that their small drama is nothing alongside the water's timeless indifference: And in this constancy, in this complete indifference to the life and death of each of us, there lies hid, perhaps, a pledge of our eternal salvation, of the unceasing movement of life upon earth, of unceasing progress towards perfection.
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