Mindy and Max, Becca and Ron are all playing with fire when they agree to "open" their marriages. They set rules and boundaries, then break them. The next step is to try to cover their tracks with lies. But, nature abhors a vacuum, and the truth eventually comes back to bite them all.
The filmmakers developed good dramatic tension in this lurid drama that begins with the wife-swapping experiment described as opening up "a whole new glorious world." But each member of the cheating quartet will be in for a big surprise.
The suspense builds in trying to understand who is disrupting the lives of the spirited foursome. When Becca starts receiving flowers and a creepy baby carriage from an unknown "admirer," it is unclear who is the mystery man...or woman!
My favorite character in the film was Vulnavia, the proprietress of the Caligula underground bar. Password: Kumquat! It was Vulnavia who witnessed the comings and goings of the foursome and had to know who was the lynchpin engaged in dastardly deeds. Another good secondary character was the faithful Dylan, who provided good support to Becca in her work at the hospital.
Of the foursome, the most intriguing character was Becca, a mysterious and deceitful woman, who held her husband Ron to standards she herself could not meet. She was apoplectic when Ron failed to instantly tell her that he was shooting blanks during their desperate attempt at pregnancy. Yet she withheld from him the news that she was pregnant. She was furious at Ron for going back to the Caligula club, yet she did the same in a furtive meeting with Max.
The film's denouement offered such a smarmy resolution that it belied the truth about a shallow set of characters, whose values will probably be passed on to their beautiful new baby.
Open Marriage
2017
Action / Drama / Thriller
Open Marriage
2017
Action / Drama / Thriller
69% - Audience
6.0Plot summary
Ron and Becca are facing stresses in their marriage. Some of those stresses are financial as Ron, who owns a small construction business, had been on disability, it which ran out two months ago with he not yet returning to work, leaving Becca, a nurse, as the sole breadwinner, she needing to do double shifts to keep their heads above water. Ron also flips properties, Becca who is getting tired of not ever having a sense of having a home instead of just an investment. And they have been trying to have a baby, their attempts so far unsuccessful despite Becca taking fertility drugs. They learn from their wealthy best friends Max and Mindy - all four who have known each other since college - that they saved what was their own troubled marriage about a year ago when they decided to have an open relationship. In what is Max and Mindy's proposition to them, Ron and Becca, who admit that that the thought of sex with others has improved their own sex life although they had never actually contemplated acting on such a fantasy, agree to an open marriage with them, on Max and Mindy's caveat that they as a couple only play together, with Ron and Becca adding their own caveat solely between the two of them that they will stop if either one wants to stop, no questions asked. Ron and Becca will find that although they are enjoying their time with Max and Mindy, the open relationship does not fix existing issues in their life. As both begin to keep secrets and in the process tell lies, further suspicions start to creep into their relationship only exacerbated by the open relationship. What may be the biggest threat to their marriage is the unknown action of others, who may have their own motives working against a Ron/Becca happy ending.
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"A Whole New Glorious World"
Saw it a couple of times.....still comes across as a "G" rated gay porno.
I saw this a couple of times and every time I see it comes across as an attempt at gay porno, with women mixed in for interest.
The two male leads appearing shirtless or in stick-to-skin underwear throughout most of the movie was a bit gratuitous. Their bodies should have been given screen credit for this.
The nurse character's gay friend at the hospital was such a RAGING QUEEN that every gay man who sees this should feel INSULTED.
This is the only movie I have seen where women and men are clothed when engaging in sex. I Think in some scenes the women PUT on clothes?
Club Caligula just creeped me out.
The ending was a bit over the top - poor Tilky Jones.
If you are a gay man and watch this, you'll enjoy the scenery - but remember who they are stereotyping.....
5/10.
**
Way over the top film where a struggling couple agree to open their marriage with them participating in sex with his best friend and the friend's wife swapping each other.
As one can realize, things get quickly out of hand and lust and acts of disgust prevail throughout the film. Our original couple seem to be stalked and lives are ruined by this mysterious person.
Go know at the end that the friend's wife had lesbian tendencies, affection for the other woman and that she was creating all the havoc around.
Tying her husband up at the bed scene and threatening all with a gun by film's end is a little too much to bear.
The film is a perfect example of lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil.