Love is arbitrary, or so it seems in soap operas and film. People have marriages, people have affairs. People are in love, some are in lust. Any way you look at is, there's a great deal of movies made about infidelity. A Man In Love goes one step further.

Let me start out by saying that this picture is on my Top Ten list for 1987. After originally screening it, I couldn't stop thinking about the eroticism, the beauty or the reality. Ruggedly sexy Peter Coyote and beautiful Greta Scacchi are a delicious pair. The on-screen chemistry between these two remind you of your first meeting with the person you will later have sex with for the first time. It's exciting. Your heart beats are double what it should be. It's the kind of feeling you get, I imagine, before you start an affair.

A famous actor (Coyote) married to Jamie Lee Curtis (away from the location) meets his leading lady (Scacchi) off screen and something develops immediately. Their on-screen love influences their off-screen affair, making for a wonderfully sordid soap opera. Without giving more away, I'll just say everything about this movie is great. But the eroticism makes it click. When they stare into each others eyes, it's beyond seduction. During the sex scenes, you wonder if they're really doing it; they enjoy their interaction that much. Coyote and Scacchi are so stunningly sexy, you want to be sucked into the screen and share their passion. This is sexier than any explicit film I've come across, and a fine film in every sense of the word.