
Heartburn(1986)
She's a magazine writer who gives up her career for love and family. He's a playboy newspaper columnist who can't quite give up his old tricks. And if that combination doesn't give a relationship heartburn, nothing will.

Joanna is a woman secure in the knowledge of who she is: a perfect wife, a successful magazine journalist and a woman who's just celebrated her 10th wedding anniversary with her husband, Dale. But when Dale suddenly leaves her for another woman, Joanna's world collapses. Her self-esteem shattered, Joanna questions her attractiveness as a woman and her value as a human being. How did this happen to her? Follow Joanna as she escapes to Paris and learns the many secrets of seduction under the tutelage of Madame Simone. Slowly, empowered by her newfound knowledge and self-confidence, Joanna comes to understand her true self-worth.

Jacqueline Bisset
Madame Simone

Linda Hamilton
Joanna Scott
Paolo Seganti
Francesco

Peter MacNeill
Harry Frost
Stewart Bick
Dale Scott

Tracey E. Bregman
Katherine

Marina Anderson
Shirley
Laura Catalano
Wendy

Daniela Olivieri
Suzette

Daniel Pilon
Warren
Sex & Mrs. X is a drama, comedy, tv movie film released in 2000 exploring themes of infidelity, journalist, seduction, self esteem. Directed by Arthur Allan Seidelman, it stars Jacqueline Bisset, Linda Hamilton, Paolo Seganti. Joanna is a woman secure in the knowledge of who she is: a perfect wife, a successful magazine journalist and a woman who's just celebrated her 10th wedding anniversary with her husband, Dale. But when Dale suddenly leaves her for another woman, Joanna's world collapses. Her self-esteem shattered, Joanna questions her attractiveness as a woman and her value as a human being. How did this happen to her? Follow Joanna as she escapes to Paris and learns the many secrets of seduction under the tutelage of Madame Simone. Slowly, empowered by her newfound knowledge and self-confidence, Joanna comes to understand her true self-worth.
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