Book of Love is a 2004 film

Film

A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...

 written and directed by Alan Brown

Alan Brown (filmmaker)

-Movies:Brown's first film, the half-hour narrative O Beautiful, won the Future Filmmaker Award at the 2002 Palm Springs International Short Film Festival, and was an official selection of the 2003 Sundance Film Festival...

. It stars Frances O'Connor

Frances O'Connor

-Background:O'Connor was born in Wantage, Oxfordshire, England to a pianist mother and nuclear physicist father. When O'Connor was two, her family moved back to Perth, Western Australia. O'Connor was raised a Roman Catholic and attended the Mercedes College in Perth...

, Simon Baker

Simon Baker

Simon Baker is an Australian actor. Since 2008, he has starred in the CBS television series The Mentalist.-Early life:...

, and Gregory Smith.

Plot

A young woman named Elaine (Frances O'Connor) and her husband, David Walker (Simon Baker) meet a lonely fifteen year-old, Chet Becker, (Gregory Smith) in an ice-cream shop. Over time, the couple becomes friendly with Chet, who develops a crush on Elaine that culminates in a one night stand. Elaine later confesses her infidelity to David, and their marriage is destroyed by the affair.

The movie also represented the debut of Bryce Dallas Howard

Bryce Dallas Howard

Bryce Dallas Howard is an American film actress and daughter of director Ron Howard. She made her acting debut in her father's 1989 movie Parenthood and went on to have small roles in films and make stage appearances for the next several years...

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Cast and crew

• Frances O'Connor
  Frances O'Connor
  -Background:O'Connor was born in Wantage, Oxfordshire, England to a pianist mother and nuclear physicist father. When O'Connor was two, her family moved back to Perth, Western Australia. O'Connor was raised a Roman Catholic and attended the Mercedes College in Perth...
  
   as Elaine Walker
• Simon Baker
  Simon Baker
  Simon Baker is an Australian actor. Since 2008, he has starred in the CBS television series The Mentalist.-Early life:...
  
   as David Walker
• Gregory Smith as Chet Becker
• Bryce Dallas Howard
  Bryce Dallas Howard
  Bryce Dallas Howard is an American film actress and daughter of director Ron Howard. She made her acting debut in her father's 1989 movie Parenthood and went on to have small roles in films and make stage appearances for the next several years...
  
   as Heather
• Joanna Adler as Melissa
• Sabrina Grdevich
  Sabrina Grdevich
  Sabrina Grdevich is a Canadian actress.Sabrina portrayed Dana Ballard in the 1999 made-for-TV movie Ultimate Deception with Yasmine Bleeth. Her starring roles include Mile Zero and Lola...
  
   as Lilian
• Ari Graynor
  Ari Graynor
  Ariel Geltman Graynor, better known as Ari Graynor, is an American actress.-Life and career:Graynor was born in Boston, Massachusetts. She was raised in a Jewish family and attended Buckingham Browne & Nichols, a private school in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Trinity College, in Hartford,...
  
  as Naomi
• Beth MacDonald as Yoga Instructor
• Brett Tabor as Coach
• Van Hughes as Swimmer #1
• C.J. Aker as Swimmer #2
• Rob Ahrens as Producer
• William Rexer as Director of Photography
• Trevor Ristow as Editor