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Product Description ------------------- Sophie seems to have an idyllic life; she's the perfect housewife for Andrew, her successful husband. Their relationship is put to the test, though, when she can't conceive a child. To save her marriage, Sophie does something desperate. She initiates a bold and clandestine venture with Jihah, an illegal immigrant from Korea. Sophie soon finds this new arrangement spiraling into a situation that may actually destroy what it was meant to liberate. Stars Vera Farmiga (Down to the , The Departed, Joshua) Review ------ Reviewed for CompuServe By Harvey Karten. "Never Forever"; an awkward title for a film that might better be called "Pleasure for Sale"; were that not the actual title of a Sundance Channel series about the friendly relationships of hookers and their clients, features explicitly sexual scenes which are obligatory if writer-director Kim is to have her audience believe in the emotional changes of this odd couple. Sophie, a woman who can afford to stay at home in a location that could be sdale or Greenwich, finds common ground with Jihah, an illegal immigrant working jobs at a meat-packing and a dry-cleaning store before taking a third and more unusual and lucrative occupation. Andrew does not quite appreciate Sophie's motivations upon his discovery of the clandestine meetings: the lives of the three are to change dramatically in a film that compels our attention. --Rotten Tomatoes Reviewed By Mary Block...The motivations are thin, but Farmiga's painfully unguarded performance keeps the film from degenerating into dismissible soap drama. Sophie visibly self-destructs as the boundaries that define her relationship with the man she's hired to impregnate her become increasingly blurred. Korean star Ha struggles with the English dialogue, but is intriguingly masculine and defenseless as Farmiga's illegal immigrant lover. Cinematographer Matthew Clark's trembling, tightly-focused camerawork keeps the viewer uncomfortably close to the messy situation, and the terrifying brightness of Sophie's townhouse in Brooklyn contrasts startlingly with the warm darkness of Jihah's Chinatown hovel. Writer and director Kim's deep investment in the subject matter is apparent, but consequently seems to be the source of the melodrama (and the positioning of husband Andrew as a monstrous, unfeeling archetype). The narrative isn't perfect, but no one seems to have entered half-heartedly into Never Forever. --The L Magazine "Never Forever" The return of nervy, oughta-be-a-star Vera Farmiga ("Breaking and Entering," "The Departed"). In Gina Kim's drama, a 2007 Sundance selection, the actress plays a New Yorker married to a Korean-American lawyer (David McInnis) but unable to have a child. Desperate to conceive, she embarks on a relationship with a Korean illegal immigrant (Ha Jung-woo, "Time"). Regardless of the movie, Farmiga's worth seeing in anything and buzz about her performance here is strong. --Boston Globe