An 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.
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Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
The 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.
Scripted 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.
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VarietyJoe Leydon
VarietyJoe Leydon
A bland gumbo of wartime intrigue and home-front soap opera in the bayou country of Louisiana.
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Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune
The 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.