Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Adrienne Welles is an attractive society woman who does nothing but support charitable causes. Her husband Richard apparently finds her cold and is carrying on with Laura a phone sex operator whose conversations he tapes. Adrienne overhears one of the conversations, then discovers the tapes.Her husband goes missing and the last tape has the Laura wanting Richard to guess where she is, Richard being surprised and then hit by something. There's no "bloodcurdling scream" as the video box states, just a "no!" You're really slow if you can't figure out what happened just from hearing that tape.Adrienne is really slow. She goes to the police, but then decides not to tell them about the tape. A PI at the station overhears her and wants to help. He's really slow too. Adrienne finds Laura without the PI, unlike what the box says. There's not really "a seamy underworld of fatal attractions and deadly connections" either.Not recommended unless you like any of the cast.

OK, I'm gonna be honest. I was first drawn to seeing this movie when I saw the video cover at Blockbuster. I've always liked Jane Seymour's looks (and that English accent's pretty sexy too), so that cover made me do a double take the first time I saw it. Then, I recently discovered what a babe Beth Broderick is (although she looks better as a blonde in my opinion), and that all but sealed the deal as far as renting the video was concerned. And what did I think of the movie as a whole? Well...The story wasn't bad in itself. Rich wife (Seymour, English accent and all) finds out that her hubby's cheating on her with a phone sex/call girl (Broderick, before she went blonde). The husband gets the axe (or is it a meat cleaver?) pretty early on in the movie, so the wife (who's known about the affair since the start) takes the answering machine sex tapes (WOW, great title for a rock album!) to everyone and their dog (not really, just her lawyer, the police, and a private detective at the right place at the right time) trying to find out where her cheatin' hubby might be. She even goes so far as to track the phone sex/call girl down to see if she's got any info on the whole situation (bad mistake). After a few twists N turns (and a lame attempt at a love scene between the wife and the P.I.)in the plot, we find out who did the hubby in and the credits roll over a shot of the widow and the P.I. kissing on the beach.If it seems like I'm not too impressed with this movie, I guess you could say I was let down by it. Granted, this WAS a TV movie. But even then, I don't really see where it merited a PG-13 rating. Apart from the aforementioned lame attempt at the love scene and the make-out scene at the end, there wasn't really anything too sexy about this movie. Maybe I'm just jaded, since this was put out in '91, and times have changed since then, but I was expecting more from a movie with the premise that this one has. The least they could have done was extended the love scene a little (maybe there's some deleted footage out there somewhere?). Other than that, this movie wasn't too bad, really. Let me just say that if it ever came on TV one night when I was watching, I wouldn't go out of my way to see it again.

As far as Im concerned - a good movie allows time to fly and takes me off to another world - for 90 minutes or so. This film worked. It wasn't great, it didn't carry any deep meaning, the ending wasn't a great surprise BUT it was well directed and edited, it didn't have any gaping holes and it flowed well. I thought it was the perfect length and had a few twists to keep the audience guessing a little. - In short, a good, entertaining film, in a similar genre as "The hand that rocks the cradle". Highly recommended.

Are You Lonesome Tonight? isn't the best movie, but not a bad movie either. A few sexy scenes are provided even with Jane Seymour the story is as rich and erotic as ever. Seymour stars as a rich wife married to a business man who has secrets like his little thing with a phone sex girl. After the husband is missing only later to turn up dead by playing with the wrong kind of fire, a private eye (Parker Stevenson) helps Seymour solve the problem and bring justice on the situation. In the end the Seymour and Stevenson characters end up lovers, good TV movie watch it sometime all of you Jane Seymour fans.