The Umbrella Woman (released in some areas as The Good Wife) is a 1987 Australian film directed by Ken Cameron and starring Bryan Brown and Rachel Ward.

Producer Jan Sharp originally intended her husband, Phillip Noyce to direct, but he went on to make Echoes of Paradise instead, so she hired Ken Cameron.

It's terribly hard to do Madame Bovary in Australia and it's very hard to graft, say, that European style of melodrama or melodramatically intense view of family and sexual relations on to the Australian landscape.

[2] Cameron says the movie hurt his career: I think the reason that it didn't work was that there was something very difficult to understand about the relationship between Bryan and Rachel.

It was terribly hard to cast them as a couple who had some unstated problem in their marriage because everything in fact denied that.