55
Metascore
5 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 70Film ThreatMerle BertrandFilm ThreatMerle BertrandAn unusual tale about an often over-glorified era from our past, The Scoundrel's Wife exposes wartime America's sordid small town underbelly in a captivating, even entertaining manner.
- 63Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThe movie is finally just a little too ungainly, too jumbled at the end, for me to recommend, but it has heart, and I feel a lot of affection for it.
- 60Chicago ReaderJ.R. JonesChicago ReaderJ.R. JonesScripted by Pitre and his wife, Michelle Benoit, this is more interesting for its historical setting than for its rather wooden drama, but Tim Curry gives a pretty good performance as the town's whiskey priest.
- 50VarietyJoe LeydonVarietyJoe LeydonA bland gumbo of wartime intrigue and home-front soap opera in the bayou country of Louisiana.
- 50Chicago TribuneChicago TribuneThe shame is that Pitre, shooting entirely in his home state, wasn't more engaged himself. His intimate connection to the people, place and story, which certainly inspired him to write the film in the first place, is wasted.