MOVIE · 1981

The Postman Always Rings Twice

CrimeDramaRomanceThriller122 min

A drifter takes a job at a roadside lunch wagon and starts an affair with the owner’s wife, turning a chance stop into a dangerous pact. Jack Nicholson is Frank Chambers, a rootless outsider drawn to Jessica Lange’s Cora, who is stuck in a hard marriage to diner proprietor Nick (John Colicos). What begins as mutual desire soon folds in money, resentment, and a plan to kill the man standing between them, binding both lovers to the same crime.