The Wife is a 1995 film written and directed by Tom Noonan, based on his play Wifey.

[1] Jack and his wife Rita, both professional therapists, live and work in virtual isolation in a remote Vermont cottage.

One night, one of Jack's patients, Cosmo, unexpectedly turns up with young wife Arlie in tow.

And the more the couples talk and drink, the more tension builds over what personal issues are being shared in analysis, as well as the private troubles of the therapists themselves.

Stephen Holden of The New York Times gave the film a mixed review: The Wife begins promisingly, but once Mr. Noonan's screenplay lurches into comic caricature, the movie loses its psychological authority... You are more inclined to laugh derisively at the characters than to sympathize with them...