The best line in "My Husband's Double Life" (a.k.a., "Who Is My Husband?") is spoken by Fletcher ("Fletch") Rees' long-suffering wife Sabrina, when she tells her daughter Zoe, "All that matters is that we are together." The mother-daughter bond was on display in this Hitchcock wannabe thriller.
While there was some good suspense and decent scoring, the film's characters and situations were too unpleasant. Fletch, Sabrina, and Zoe fly out of New York in succession, and their destination is the city of lights: Paris. Yet there was no time to see the sights because of the tawdry living arrangement with Fletch and his second family, his wife Bridgette and the little baby Nathan.
It doesn't take the astute accountant Sabrina long to figure out her wayward husband's shenanigans. In her fury, she vows, "I need to make him pay." But instead of going to police to report Fletch's bigamy or his shady financial dealings, Sabrina takes it upon herself to bust her husband. In the process, the nicest character in the film, Fletch's honest secretary Diane, is pushed off the top of a building, exiting the script at the three-quarter mark.
One of the more intriguing characters in the film was Sergey Novak, the father of Bridgette and the co-conspirator of Fletch in an illicit building project involving payoffs and kickbacks. The wily Sergey will not tolerate his daughter being made to look ridiculous by Fletch. As a result, the walls slowly close in on the bigamist.
Besides Diane, the only breath of fresh air in the film was the mother-daughter bonding that finally takes place after Zoe learns that her dad is a nefarious creature. At long last, mother and daughter will be relieved of all the toxic masculinity in their lives.
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