Katherine Lindberg's "Rain" is about people who act in passion, and then must deal with the consequences. It takes place
in a small Iowa town cursed with bleak, flat landscapes and moody cinematography, not to mention a lot of small-town people who have sex with each other all the time. This is pure cheesy prime-time soap opera fodder, artfully filmed and peppered with profanity. Our heroine, I guess, is Ellen (Melora Walters), who is tearful and probably crazy from the first moment we see her, which is when she kills her husband, presumably because he's been having an affair with Patsy (Jo Anderson), whose husband Ben (Ezra Patterson) is running for mayor and who seems to have had some connection with Ellen years ago. Ben's son Tom (Jamey Sheridan) figures into things, too, seeing as how he's having an affair with Ellen, which makes you wonder why she was so judgmental about her husband's infidelity -- if, in fact, that's why she killed him (the movie doesn't tell us).
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