The Leading Man (1998)

Successful playwright Felix Webb has a new play The Hit Man in rehearsal Directed by his old friend Humphrey it is already being hailed as a masterpiece but Felix cant enjoy his success He has fallen passionately in love with Hilary a beautiful fiesty young actress and is preparing to desert his perfect family his wife Elena and three lively children His intolerable situation is further complicated when Humphrey casts Hilary as one of the leads in The Hit Man Enter Robin Grange a charismatic young Hollywood actor making his London theatre debut Robin is attractive charming and dangerous and soon inveigles his way into everyones life He ingratiates himself with the cast and quickly grasping Felixs dilemma sets about weaving his web of mischief He suggests that if he were to seduce Elena she would be distracted from Felixs affair regain her self respect and perhaps even willingly part from the unfaithful husband to whom she clings