Word: quaid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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starring Julia Roberts, Dennis Quaid...
...life plods along in a comfortable, if somewhat dull, fashion, until one day when she spots her husband Eddie (Dennis Quaid) sharing a passionate kiss with another woman outside his office...
...marriage to actor Dennis Quaid (The Right Stuff, The Big Easy, Wyatt Earp) is an opposites-attract story. "Dennis is from Texas," she says. "He's expansive. He likes space. I'm from a state with little hills, valleys and towns. It's condensed and defined. I like to call things something, put words to it, make it understandable...
There are darker shades too: Ryan refused to marry Quaid, with whom she had been involved for years, until he gave up cocaine. He did, she did, and they now have a son Jack, 3. So how are the cowboy and the lady making a go of it? "By just facing it. Love is not a decision your brain makes. It's a feeling you know somewhere else, and your brain catches up. But love challenges you in areas you need to be challenged in. It rests somewhere in not knowing what's going to happen. Not predicting. That...
...more conventional movie figures who fare best in this lugubrious context. Dennis Quaid is Doc Holliday, the tubercular gunman-gambler, who gallantly and sardonically confronts his mortality, and Joanna Going plays Josie, the smart, spunky romantic who is Earp's last great passion. These are familiar, forthright characters, and the actors energize the film by playing them with headlong confidence...