Sex & Mrs. X | |
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Written by | Elisa Bell Amanda Vaill (article) |
Directed by | Arthur Allan Seidelman |
Starring | Jacqueline Bisset Linda Hamilton Paolo Seganti Peter MacNeill |
Theme music composer | Joseph Conlan |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
Production | |
Cinematography | Don E. FauntLeRoy |
Editor | Sharyn L. Ross |
Running time | 100 min |
Production company | Lifetime |
Original release | |
Release | April 10, 2000 |
Sex & Mrs. X is a 2000 Lifetime television film. It was directed by Arthur Allan Seidelman and based on an article published by Amanda Vaill in Allure . It stars Jacqueline Bisset and Linda Hamilton and premiered on 10 April 2000.
Joanna (Hamilton) is a magazine writer whose life is thrown into disarray when her husband leaves her for another woman. But she finds salvation when she is assigned to interview a Paris madame (Bisset) who inspires a sexual reawakening in her. [1]
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