George Kelly's sharp domestic comedy "The Fatal Weakness" centers on Ollie Espenshade, a hopelessly sentimental romantic who cannot resist weddings, funerals, or any occasion dripping with emotion, and who becomes convinced, largely on the flimsiest of evidence, that her husband is carrying on an affair. Rather than confronting him directly, Ollie hires a private detective to trail her own husband, setting off a chain of ironic complications that expose the gap between her romantic fantasies about marriage and its far more mundane realities. Kelly, known for his clear-eyed, often satirical view of domestic relationships, uses Ollie's compulsive sentimentality to needle the notion that love must always look and feel dramatic to be real.

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