Bob Rafelson's remake of 1946's The Postman Always Rings Twice, with a screenplay by the award-winning playwright
David Mamet, stars
Jack Nicholson as Frank Chambers, a depression-era drifter who ends up at a diner run by Nick Papadakis (
John Colicos), who offers Frank a job. Frank takes him up on the offer, but quickly begins a torrid affair with Nick's wife Cora (
Jessica Lange). The adulterous lovers soon hatch a plan to kill Nick and share in the insurance payout. The second big-screen adaptation of the James M. Cain novel, the film garnered a certain degree of notoriety for the explicit sex scenes between Lange and Nicholson. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide