Chris Rock has never had trouble getting people riled up with his stand-up. With his latest movie, "I Think I Love My Wife," Rock's ready to do the same thing with his film career. "When I'm on tour, I always get people coming up to me later on, 'Me and my husband saw your show and we had a fight afterwards,'" he says.
"Or 'Me and my boyfriend broke up.' Or 'Me and my girlfriend had sex great after.' The show always sparks something, but I never had a movie that did that.
So hopefully this movie gets people juiced up." For most viewers--especially couples--the movie likely will do just that. Directed, starring and co-written by Rock, the film is a more comedic take on Eric Rohmer's 1972 French drama "Chloe in the Afternoon.
" Rock plays Richard Cooper, a married suburban businessman who, while going through a midlife crisis, finds himself tempted by an attractive and aggressive old friend (Kerry Washington). "No matter who you're with, no matter how happy you are, you're always going to see somebody or speak to somebody that you find attractive," he says. "I don't care who you are.
If you don't, you're just dead. It's just trying not to act on it." But stopping yourself from consummating that temptation isn't everything, he says.
"Ultimately if you have a secret [and still don't take physical action], you're kinda cheating," he says. "You and someone know something that your wife doesn't, you're going down a slippery slope. It's weird.
Cheating's so weird. It's like there's 10 degrees of murder but only one cheating.
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