text: When her cardiologist husband ( Martin Donovan ) leaves her , Judith Nelson ( Holly Hunter ) goes out into the world , her pain making her receptive to everything and everyone--from the elevator man ( Danny DeVito ) who returns her friendship with uninvited amorousness to the torch singer ( Queen Latifah ) who takes her to after-hours clubs , where she dances ecstatically with young women .
  
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  Judith Nelson reunites with her husband at the end of the movie .