Natalie Portman plays a young attorney who has an affair with a married co-worker who then divorces his wife (played by Lisa Kudrow) in order to marry her when she becomes pregnant. The union is put to test when Emilia's (Portman) baby Isabel dies three days after birth. The death of the baby, hostility from the ex-wife, the family maid and more threaten to dismantle the marriage but the budding relationship between stepson and stepmother proves an unlikely source of saving grace and hope. Strong performances by Portman (who roles like this should be second nature to by now) and Kudrow. I have to admit it though, it's hard to feel sorry for Emilia as she did plan out her strategy to take another woman's man yet has the guts to sit in judgment of her own father who cheated on her mother.
Review of The Other Woman
