The Butcher's Wife (1991)

5.4PG-13100 min

1991 film by Terry Hughes

The Butcher's Wife is a 1991 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Terry Hughes and starring Demi Moore and Jeff Daniels.

The film concerns Marina, a clairvoyant woman (Moore) who thinks that she's met her future husband Leo Lemke, whom she has seen in her dreams and who is a butcher in New York City. They marry and move to the city, where her powers tend to influence everyone she meets while working in the shop. Through her advice, she helps others and eventually finds the true man of her dreams in a psychiatrist Dr. Alex Tremor (Daniels).

The Butcher's Wife was a critical and commercial failure, grossing only $9 million at the box office. According to her 2019 memoir Inside Out, Moore regretted starring in the film, saying she only did it to increase her fee after the success of Ghost.

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