Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0808630241592
Format: Color
Label: Starlight Video
Languages: Array
Manufacturer: Starlight Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Starlight Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2003-12-30
Running Time: 91
Studio: Starlight Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1999-08-16

Dot (Park Overall), a wife and mother, refuses to play the victim when her husband of 18 years leaves her for his secretary (Laura Innes). Using an obscure North Carolina law known as "alienation of affection", that was designed to protect husbands and wives from home wreckers, she sues her husband's mistress for $1 million in damages. Based on a true story. Drama. 91 Minutes.

Customer Rating:
Summary: The Alienation Of Affection Law Versus Homewreckers
Comment: This movie was about a law called "Alienation Of Affection" which shows how to get even with mistresses and philanderers who deliberately break up other peoples marriages. In this case, it was about a secretary named [Lynne Cox], and an insurance salesman named [Joe Hutelmyer], who ended up having an alleged affair for three years. At the insurance company where they worked, all their co-workers found out, and Joe's wife, Dot found out through info of a P.I. (suggested by a friend of Dot's), and also from the co-workers. So, as a result, [Joe and Lynne] were thrown out of the company. Dot then sued Joe for divorce. She still wanted to get even with Lynne, so she heard about a law for alienation of affection, and sued Lynne for that, and prevailed. She became an instant celebrity receiving phone calls for interveiws on talk and news shows. Eventually in the end, she and Joe agreed to share custody of their two boys, and she also worked with her lawyer on helping other people whose marriages were ruined in the same way.
This law is very helpful in getting even with mistresses and philanderers who ruin other peoples lives.

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