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07/21/05
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The Secret Lives of Dentists (2003)
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Reviews Counted:32
Fresh:28
Rotten:4
Average Rating:7.3/10
Consensus: A witty and honest look at marriage in decay.
Theatrical Release:Aug 1, 2003 Limited
Box Office: $3,637,833
Synopsis: Hope Davis and Campbell Scott play married dentists in this insightful dramatic comedy from director Alan Rudolph (AFTERGLOW, DOROTHY PARKER AND THE VICIOUS CIRCLE). Based on the novel THE AGE OF... [More]
Starring: Campbell Scott, Hope Davis, Denis Leary, Robin Tunney
Director: Alan Rudolph
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Reviews for The Secret Lives of Dentists
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08/07/04
Top CriticRudolph's fondness for angular, oblique characterization is ideally suited to the movie's incidental story of sublimated feelings and contradictory impulses.
11/14/03
Top CriticDomestic scenes with the kids are drawn with letter-perfect naturalism.
11/14/03
Top CriticThere are movies that have a way of hitting you at a certain time in your life, and this study of being married with young children speaks in satisfying ways.
09/11/03
Top CriticRudolph's past work has been spotty, but his stress here on familial sovereignty is moving, as is his direction of the three children.
09/03/03
Top CriticA faultlessly constructed, artistic look at love, loss and truths we can't ignore.
08/28/03
Top CriticDirector Rudolph and writer Craig Lucas ... use a wry and compassionate touch as they present this X-ray vision of a relationship long past its annual checkup.
08/22/03
Top CriticA muted but engrossing look at marriage at a crossroads.
08/17/03
Top CriticAlthough this movie is highly watchable as a story, it's the wonderfully loose and believable everyday business -- overworked parents, avoided topics at dinner, precocious children -- that really solidifies the film.
08/15/03
Top CriticThat most extraordinary of achievements, the small, quiet movie that imperceptibly takes its viewers by their throats and doesn't let go until its emotionally explosive -- and equally small and quiet -- final moments.
08/15/03
Top CriticMr. Rudolph's opus is already guaranteed a place on my year's 10-best list.
08/15/03
Top CriticA smart, understated, emotionally penetrating drama that tempts one to forgive Breakfast of Champions and Trixie.
08/14/03
Top CriticDentists may not be the best movie ever made about the perils of family life, but it is among the most ruthlessly comic.
08/08/03
Top CriticDirector Alan Rudolph shows a fine sensitivity to the loneliness that can haunt a close marriage, but it's Scott's Walter Mitty-style antihero who gives the affair its aching heart.
08/07/03
Top CriticEmpty, minuscule and pointless.
08/06/03
Top Critic[T]his is a superb examination of a suburban marriage on the brink of collapse.
08/04/03
Top CriticThe film presents a realistic and artful treatment of a subject not often dealt with in cinema -- and rarely with honesty. Davis and Scott respond with heartfelt, edgy performances.
08/01/03
Top CriticAn interesting, and sometimes bitterly amusing film.
08/01/03
Top CriticLacking a solid narrative beyond the worsening marital crisis, this humor-flecked domestic drama ends up relying heavily on directorial tricks such as splashes of magic realism, giving it a self-satisfied air that quickly becomes grating.
08/01/03
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