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You can stream The Life and Loves of a She-Devil (1986) on Amazon Prime with a subscription.

Ruth Patchett has it all: a large, warty body, a standard suburban home, a couple of unruly children, a dog, a cat and a guinea pig. She also has Bobbo, her unfaithful accountant husband who resents her very existence. Bobbo wants, and is wanted by, romance novelist Mary Fisher, who lives in a lighthouse by the sea. When Bobo leaves Ruth for Mary, Ruth decides that Mary doesn't know the first thing about love, and she's gonna teach her.

A suburban housewife finds her domestic stability shattered when her unfaithful husband falls for a glamorous romance novelist living in a lighthouse. This sharp satire dissects the messy collision between predictable family life and the intoxicating lure of a new, scandalous identity.