Even though this film has a great cast and good acting it is still too predictable and slow moving. The lack of ability to communicate within a marriage, although frustrating, is predictable. The husband finds out that their child cannot possibly be his own so his wife must have slept with someone else and never told him he was not the father of their child. The husband gets mad and leaves the house for sometime to contemplate what he should do about this situation. Instead of talking to his wife and working things out he decides to sleep with another woman and start an affair with her. She is much younger and the two are not suited for each other, it is obviously an emotional outlet so he does not have to face the challenges of his marriage. Since he has developed a relationship with the child he thought was his son, this wins out over everything else and he ends up back with his wife, hence the title of the film The ending was predictable. The emotional turmoil the family goes through, including the wife and son, is all predictable. The story takes too long to be told. It would have been less predictable if the husband had not started an affair and actually talked to his wife and child during his emotional crisis.
Review of Thicker Than Water
