"Man of Her Dreams" (also known as "The Fiancé") is a 1997 made-for-television melodrama. The protagonist is a young woman who, in a moment of weakness when she believes her husband is being unfaithful, has a one-nighter with a seemingly thoughtful man named Walter.
The unfaithful woman's name is Faith, who spends the balance of the film asking herself the question, "What have I got myself into?" It turns out that Walter is a psycho, who held his previous wife captive until she blew her brains out. Now, he will stop at nothing in order to tear Faith away from her husband Richard. In one of the oddest images of the film, Walter keeps intoning the word "gardenias." But it is never made clear how and why the gardenias figure in Walter's pathological thinking.
The best line in the film comes when Faith, having recognized that Walter has destroyed the life of his previous wife, killed Faith's kind neighbor, butchered Faith's best friend, and nearly electrocuted her husband to death, casually informs Walter when he has her at gunpoint, "Sorry, wrong girl." Faith proves indeed that she is force to be reckoned with.
The unfaithful woman's name is Faith, who spends the balance of the film asking herself the question, "What have I got myself into?" It turns out that Walter is a psycho, who held his previous wife captive until she blew her brains out. Now, he will stop at nothing in order to tear Faith away from her husband Richard. In one of the oddest images of the film, Walter keeps intoning the word "gardenias." But it is never made clear how and why the gardenias figure in Walter's pathological thinking.
The best line in the film comes when Faith, having recognized that Walter has destroyed the life of his previous wife, killed Faith's kind neighbor, butchered Faith's best friend, and nearly electrocuted her husband to death, casually informs Walter when he has her at gunpoint, "Sorry, wrong girl." Faith proves indeed that she is force to be reckoned with.
