Unfinished Business

1995, VHS

Unfinished Business is a 1985 drama where Geoff (John Clayton) bumps into Maureen (Michele Fawdon) in the street, a woman he had a brief relationship with 15 years previously. They start talking and then one thing leads to another and they sleep with one another. The next day, Maureen, who is married, calls Geoff with a proposal. With her husband (Norman Kaye) going away on a work trip, she asks Geoff if he would like to get her pregnant. He feels like he's getting used but he agrees and they set up a trip to a remote cabin when they have a week where Maureen can get pregnant without her husband knowing and with no strings attached. Well, of course strings are attached.

From the maker of the insufferable Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train, Bob Ellis managed to make yet another boring adult drama where two people talk about their relationship and what they are doing the entire time. Thankfully it's only 75 minutes long but that's still too long.

Unfinished Business is fairly decent quality for a VHS rip. It's lit and shot quite well, which is not a surprise considering the cinematographer went on to shoot the Lord of the Rings movies.

Michele Fawdon film clip (collages below)