fairlesssam This really comes across as a TV movie. There is nothing special about it. The styling is very much 'stepford wives' in that it portrays a perfect American family, a perfect marriage that others are envious of. No hair out of place, a couple who have been married 25 years yet still have sex, still love each other and take pride in how they look.That all comes to a screeching halt when Darcy stumbles across the fact that her husband is a serial killer.My thoughts are that this film is watchable but I wouldn't rate it as particularly good. It's passable at best.

blumdeluxe "A good marriage" is a movie that goes with the flow. It tells its story without the big heights or downs. In short is settles around a loving wife which has to discover, that her beloved husband is responsible for the murder of several women, leaving her with the choice how to continue.Unfortunately, the film isn't really thrilling. Once the basic story is revealed, there is actually not much happening anymore, neither in a form of plot twists, nor in a form of a closer psychological depiction of the main character. Therefore, it appears quite unlikely many times because the woman just seems to accept what she finds out while her husband isn't really showing any regret at all. It is puzzling how she more or less just continues her life with him. That is until all of a sudden she goes berserk and kills him, quite out of the blue. But even then there's not really much tension.I've surely seen worse. You can give this film a watch and probably won't heavily regret it but I have to say that it isn't special. If that fits what you're looking for, "A good marriage" will serve you well.

MisterWhiplash Sometimes it all comes down to expectations. Maybe it's because I've seen a good number of Lifetime movies (over my wife's shoulder of course, in bits and pieces), but compared to the lot of those I found this to be good, quite good. I have a feeling "Uncle Stevie" wanted to do his own take on those kind of often cheesy "thrillers" and somehow through his script (based on a story from 'Full Dark, No Stars') found a way to make it an actual tense and weird dramatic thriller with two excellent performances.I say 'weird' since a lot of this comes off not unlike a dream at times - there's a whole bedroom conversation Joan Allen has with Anthony LaPaglia that I thought at first was an Ambien-induced nightmare of some kind - and there's a whole question of morality to the thing. It shouldn't be some surprise that Allen's character finds out her husband has killed people and has been hiding about it for a very long time. So why doesn't she turn him over to the police? Would you if you found out your significant other killed someone? It's always easier to say than in actual practice, and what I responded to here is that King lets the audience read into Allen's character what they may.In other words, it's King playing in Hitchcock's sand-box (this is more in the writing, the direction is just OKAY TV style, though the use of 2:35 widescreen is a nice touch). Again, it's not anything that you should immediately rush out to see, and of course there are better King adaptations. Though on the other hand I think this is also superior to some of the other overlong King mini-series works (The Shining, anyone?) and I think thanks to the actors on hand, especially Allen who is finding subtlety and nuance to play in almost every moment, it makes it credible. There's even a scene near the end in a hospital room - and all the more incredible since you know King is hit or miss at endings - which is flat out great.So for a trashy TV movie-of-the-week kind of deal, it's almost a minor miracle this is as good as it is, genuinely so, not a 'so-bad-it's-haha' thing. If King had maybe curbed some of the weirder elements - I half expected most of the movie, not just a few scenes, to be some overlong nightmare, which would have made it tremendously experimental - it'd be even stronger.

Saiph90 Here is the plot, man and wife appear to have an idyllic marriage, in the book apparently the stress is on what a good man Bob is, unfortunately in the film he comes across as smarmy and creepy but not in a horror type creepy. He turns out to be a rapist serial killer and the wife finds out, to keep the good name and protect the children she carries on with the marriage until she kills him by pushing him downstairs and then suffocating him. Would an autopsy not find the cause of death? an ex detective discovers their secret by combining their names Bob and Darcy which is bedee ??????????? never mind. That is the film no twists, no horror, no tension, acting passable but this is a film which goes out of its way not to alarm the audience, no loud noises, no sudden movements, no gore, no horror, nothing, luckily it was free on Sky so I have only been robbed of my time.