(There are Spoilers) A bit confusing mystery/drama that's just too overextended to be taken seriously. Adrienne, Goldie Hawn, an antique dealer meets by chance Jack Saunders, John Heard, at a restaurant thinking that he's Adam Lucus the parson she was supposed to meet there.
It at first turned out to be the happiest mistake she ever made in her life with the handsome and charming Jack bowling her over and within the first five minutes she's married and has a daughter with him Mary, Ashley Peldon, celebrating her sixth birthday. It's then when things start to turn sour for Adeienne with Jack's secret life coming to the surface with disturbing and deadly results.
Jack, an antique dealer himself, leaving home one evening for a business trip to Boston to buy some jewelry Adrienne finds out that he was really in New York City and buying womens clothes at a shop on East 53th street but not for her, was he having an affair with someone else? As more evidence starts to arise about Jack's life before and during his marriage to Adrienne it becomes obvious that he's somehow not the person that she's married to! Before Adrienne can get to the bottom of her mysterious husbands background he's killed in a car accident!
After Jack's death Adrienne is called to the NYC Social Securtiy office to find out that her husband Jack Saunders' Social Security number does indeed belongs to a man named Jack Saunders but not the man she was married to! It belonged to a 25 year-old Jack Saunders who was killed in a plane crash in Summerville Nebraska on January 19, 1975 some ten years before she married him! So who was her husbands and what was his real identity?
The second half of the movie "Decived" goes a bit too off course with Jack' life revealed to Adrienne by her finding out that he had a number of different identities as well as wives over the last fifteen years. Jack himself comes back to life to make life hell for his "greiving widow" as well as murdering his mother Mrs. Sullivan whom he deserted to live alone and broke in a Greenpoint Brooklyn tenement. It was only when his mom found out that he was alive, from a talk with Adrienne, that he decided to pay her one last and fatal visit.
Jack splitting into a homicidal lunatic, from the lovable Teddy Bear that he at first was, now turns his insane anger on Adrienne by having her get him a piece of jewelry that his daughter Mary mistakenly gave to her friend some time ago and. that sets up the films heart-dropping final sequence.
A surprisingly good Goldie Hawn makes the film "Decived" work with her far better then one would expect serious acting being that Goldie was almost always in comedy films up until she made that movie. John Heard as the insane but charming Jack Saunders/Sullivan/Sherman, Triple "S" for short, is also good in his role as a human salamander. Jack gives a rousing and exciting farewell speech to Adrienne the audience and , for all we know, the troops before he takes that final one step beyond and disappears into the darkness as well as from Adrienne's and Mary life forever.
It at first turned out to be the happiest mistake she ever made in her life with the handsome and charming Jack bowling her over and within the first five minutes she's married and has a daughter with him Mary, Ashley Peldon, celebrating her sixth birthday. It's then when things start to turn sour for Adeienne with Jack's secret life coming to the surface with disturbing and deadly results.
Jack, an antique dealer himself, leaving home one evening for a business trip to Boston to buy some jewelry Adrienne finds out that he was really in New York City and buying womens clothes at a shop on East 53th street but not for her, was he having an affair with someone else? As more evidence starts to arise about Jack's life before and during his marriage to Adrienne it becomes obvious that he's somehow not the person that she's married to! Before Adrienne can get to the bottom of her mysterious husbands background he's killed in a car accident!
After Jack's death Adrienne is called to the NYC Social Securtiy office to find out that her husband Jack Saunders' Social Security number does indeed belongs to a man named Jack Saunders but not the man she was married to! It belonged to a 25 year-old Jack Saunders who was killed in a plane crash in Summerville Nebraska on January 19, 1975 some ten years before she married him! So who was her husbands and what was his real identity?
The second half of the movie "Decived" goes a bit too off course with Jack' life revealed to Adrienne by her finding out that he had a number of different identities as well as wives over the last fifteen years. Jack himself comes back to life to make life hell for his "greiving widow" as well as murdering his mother Mrs. Sullivan whom he deserted to live alone and broke in a Greenpoint Brooklyn tenement. It was only when his mom found out that he was alive, from a talk with Adrienne, that he decided to pay her one last and fatal visit.
Jack splitting into a homicidal lunatic, from the lovable Teddy Bear that he at first was, now turns his insane anger on Adrienne by having her get him a piece of jewelry that his daughter Mary mistakenly gave to her friend some time ago and. that sets up the films heart-dropping final sequence.
A surprisingly good Goldie Hawn makes the film "Decived" work with her far better then one would expect serious acting being that Goldie was almost always in comedy films up until she made that movie. John Heard as the insane but charming Jack Saunders/Sullivan/Sherman, Triple "S" for short, is also good in his role as a human salamander. Jack gives a rousing and exciting farewell speech to Adrienne the audience and , for all we know, the troops before he takes that final one step beyond and disappears into the darkness as well as from Adrienne's and Mary life forever.