The End of the Affair
1999

As Henry Miles
USA Premiere: December 2, 1999
UK Release: February 11, 2000
Ralph Fiennes, Julianne Moore
and Stephen Rea.
While Neil Jordan adapted the story from Graham Greene's famous novel, Stephen Rea's character, Henry Miles, is portrayed with richer and more humanistic qualities than what Greene originally wrote in the story. Through a collaboration between Stephen Rea and Neil Jordan, the role was crafted into a more genuine and sympathetic character: a man who maintains a kind of unconditional love for his wife Sarah, despite her infidelity. In the end, Miles does recognize his shortcomings, and despite it all, he remains deeply devoted.
Neil Jordan

Stephen Rea's 8th film with Neil Jordan
Based on the semi autobiographical novel by Graham Greene. 
Screenplay by Neil Jordan

HENRY
I know I haven't been much of a husband to you, my dear.


SARAH
We are good friends.


HENRY
You can do without a friend. Don't leave me Sarah. Stick it out a few more years. I'll try, I promise.


- Stephen Rea and Julianne Moore.
In a profile from the Irish Tattler, April 2000, Stephen Rea describes his character, Henry Miles. He says:

"You always forget the cuckold is actually in love as well. We're caught up in the action in the old bed, having fun with the rompers. But the other guy, Henry in this case, is loving too, more selflessly than the man she had fallen in love with. That is true love and it is very moving. He is more loving in the movie than in the book, audiences are touched by that, by his concern."
The original film version of this story was released in 1955, also called The End of the Affair. Similarly based on Greene's novel, it starred Deborah Kerr as Sarah, Van Johnson as Maurice Bendrix and Peter Cushing as Henry Miles.