A Woman’s Guide to Adultery

This popular 1993 TV drama focuses on four women’s friendship and the search of each for love.

Carlton ITV-Hartswood 1993
Directed by David Hayman
With Theresa Russell, Amanda Donohoe, Neil Morrissey, Sean Bean
Running time 153min

An early commission for Hartswood Films, this popular drama boasts a fantastic cast and focuses on four women’s friendship and the search of each for love. Written by Frank Cottrell Boyce (who collaborated with Danny Boyle on the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games), it nicely captures the emotional price to be paid for an affair. Caught between a desire for happiness and the dissatisfaction of being ‘the other woman’, our heroines come to learn something about themselves and the value of friendship in a world where men still seem to have it all.