Something to Talk About

Grace King Bichon helps run her father's riding stable in a small Southern town, where she lives a comfortable life as the wife of Eddie Bichon. That life is upended when she learns Eddie has been unfaithful. She leaves him and stays with her sister Emma Rae while she works out what to do next. Her decision draws pressure from those around her, above all her parents, who would rather see the marriage patched up than see the family's respectable surface disturbed. Grace begins to question the expectations she has lived by.

Lasse Hallström directed the film, the fourth of the twenty features credited to him, following What's Eating Gilbert Grape and preceding The Cider House Rules. Callie Khouri wrote the screenplay, and Anthea Sylbert and Paula Weinstein produced. Julia Roberts plays Grace, with Dennis Quaid as Eddie, Robert Duvall and Gena Rowlands as her parents, Kyra Sedgwick as her sister and Brett Cullen as Jamie Johnson, among a credited cast of thirty-three.

Released in August 1995, the film cost about 30 million dollars and took roughly 77 million dollars worldwide, a solid return on its budget. On IMDb it holds a rating of 5.6 from 262 votes, while a critics' score of 5.3 from 33 reviews places critics and audiences close together on the film.