Stars: Demi Moore, Jeff Daniels, George Dzundza, Frances McDormand, Miriam Margolyes, Margaret Colin, Mary Steenburgen

Director: Terry Hughes

Summary: The new wife of a Greenwich Village butcher becomes the centre of attention when the community realises she has special psychic powers.

Marina (Demi Moore) is a romantic smalltown psychic who believes her true love will come from the sea. He turns out to be the first man that she sees ashore--butcher Leo (George Dzundza)--and she sets off for New York with him. When she arrives in Greenwich Village, she begins to use her psychic abilities on the neighborhood, which upsets the local psychiatrist (Jeff Daniels), whose patients begin to use Marina's services more than his. Slowy, as she gets to know her neighbors, she begins to realize that she may have been wrong about her true love.

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Marina (Demi Moore), a blonde Southern belle with a clairvoyant streak, sees signs--a shooting star with two tails, a snowglobe that washes up on the beach, a wedding band inside of a fish--telling her that her true love is about to come ashore. And soon enough, a boat lands on the beach in front of her home; only the guy inside is a stout butcher from New York City named Leo (George Dzundza). Still, portents are portents, and the next thing you know she's married and running barefoot around a butcher's shop in Greenwich Village, where she inspires various residents with her predictions. Leo, however, is frightened by his wife's abilities and encourages her to see Alex (Jeff Daniels), a psychiatrist who works across the street. To placate him, she does--and soon begins to suspect that she's misread her signs and married the wrong man. The Butcher's Wifecould use a little more humour about Marina's powers (her pronouncements are dizzyingly earnest) but the movie is buoyed up by a fantastic supporting cast, particularly Margaret Colin as a soap opera actress, Frances McDormand as a lesbian dress shop owner and Mary Steenburgen as a dowdy church choir leader who just wants to sing the blues. Like Marina, you know what's going to happen but the cast manages to make getting there charming. --Bret Fetzer

Aspect Ratio:	1.85 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Theatrical Trailer
Subtitles:	Arabic, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
Year:	1991
Release Date:	April 22, 2002
Runtime:	100 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	P H E 8148
Keywords:	Comedy, Wife, General, Butcher's
Genre:	Comedy