Review – A Letter to Three Wives

Against my better judgment I found myself being drawn into this dated drama about three post-WW2 wives musing about their relationship woes. Sure, it’s full of the sexism and racism typical of the period, but there’s more to it than that. Our three protagonists jointly receive a letter from a woman from all their husbands’ pasts informing them that she’s run off with one of their husbands. Throughout a day trip with some school girls the trio is left to muse about their various relationship woes (war bride married above her station, career woman married to underachieving scholar, and gold-digger who actually loves her sugar daddy), each anxiously waiting to find out if she’s the one. Oddly enough, it doesn’t turn out to be quite as misogynist as it sounds. Further, the script is clever and the acting for the most part up to the job. Though I suppose this isn’t normally the sort of thing I’d seek out, I’m not a bit sorry I saw it. Mildly amusing