The Golden Bowl A slow melodrama set in the early 1900s, alternating between England and Italy. The daughter of America's first billionaire gets married to a penniless Italian nobleman. He, however, is in love with his wife's best friend, who has since married his wife's father. Since his wife and her father spend a lot of time alone together, it gives the lovers opportunity to do likewise. However, such illicit affairs cannot remain undetected for ever... 125 minutes, Parental Guidance. Drama. You can usually find additional (copyrighted) pictures, trailers, etc, on the Official Site. Where's it showing?

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Ian Douglas: Also walked out of this one, although the rest of the preview audience seemed enthralled. The storyline was so slow-moving, and, since the opening scene (set a few hundred years earlier) gave one a good idea of where this would end, there seemed little point in waiting 2 hours to get there. Beckinsale comes across far too flighty and scatterbrained (compared to, for example, Pearl Harbour) and the two lovers don't make sense - with so much money at stake, which is why they married as they did, why put it all at risk? Or was that the point -- that love matters more than money? In which case why did they not get married in the first place...