There's not much to this one although if you like pretty actresses with no clothes on there's quite a bit of that. Gabriel Byrne is the distinctly unstable nobleman tortured by the past peccadilloes of a wife (Amanda Donohoe) who now appears to be trying to stay faithful. Driving home in one of his preoccupied states, after a military reunion, he runs over a girl who turns out to be the cook at another noble household. The sensitive member of the party (Douglas Hodge), horrified by the revelation that the girl lived 17 hours after Byrne's evil influential friend (Struan Rodger) insisted she was dead, suffers almost as many crises of conscience as the noble Byrne. You may not have trouble guessing the rest, and the acting is just okay (save for Michael Hordern who's marvellously roguish as Byrne's doddering father. But the flimsy story, which never quite makes up its mind what kind of movie it wants to be, at least has the decency not to outstay its welcome.

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