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08/20/03
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The Secret Lives of Dentists (2003)
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Reviews Counted:93
Fresh:79
Rotten:14
Average Rating:7.2/10
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
I wasn't sure whether I wanted to laugh out loud or scream my lungs out. But don't be afraid of the film. Be afraid of the conversations you'll have on the ride home.
08/20/03
There are many films about marriages that aren't quite working, but I can’t name a better one at portraying just how difficult marriage and family life are, despite everyone's best intentions.
08/18/03
A 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
Scott and Davis keep you interested in the Hursts' dilemma as a couple wondering when the flame in their romance blew out, and whether or not there's any hope of rekindling it.
08/15/03
Mr. Rudolph's opus is already guaranteed a place on my year's 10-best list.
08/15/03
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08/15/03
A smart, understated, emotionally penetrating drama that tempts one to forgive Breakfast of Champions and Trixie.
08/14/03
Top Critic“The Secret Lives of Dentists” is an understated masterpiece that shows American filmmakers can still make great, not just good, movies.
08/13/03
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08/09/03
Rudolph's sharpest work in years.
08/08/03
Dentists 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
An intelligent, perceptive, stylish but quietly controlled study of mid-life insecurity and marital infidelity.
08/08/03
An intelligent, detailed reminder that it's usually better not to wait until something hurts to get it fixed.
08/08/03
The filmmakers manage to jazz up Smiley's tempo without losing her melancholy tone; and they find a way -- without being untrue to the book -- to make the stubbornly recessive protagonist seem a dynamo on the screen.
08/08/03
... an engaging and engaged comic drama, [Alan Rudolph's] best and most beautifully human film in years.
08/07/03
Director 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
Empty, minuscule and pointless.
08/06/03
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