We Don't Live Here Anymore (2004)
Average Rating: 6.4/10
Reviews Counted: 123
Fresh: 79 | Rotten: 44
A potent portrait of two couples with broken marriages.
Average Rating: 6.8/10
Critic Reviews: 36
Fresh: 25 | Rotten: 11
A potent portrait of two couples with broken marriages.
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Two marriages and four lives are brought to a crossroads by infidelity in this drama, based on a pair of short stories by author Andre Dubus. Jack (Mark Ruffalo) is a college professor whose marriage to Terry (Laura Dern) has been going through a rough patch. Beyond the tensions over Terry's failings as a mother and housekeeper, Jack is deeply infatuated with Edith (Naomi Watts), the beautiful wife of his best friend, Hank (Peter Krause), a fellow professor and struggling poet. As it happens,
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Cast
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Mark Ruffalo
Jack Linden -
Laura Dern
Terry Linden -
Peter Krause
Hank Evans -
Naomi Watts
Edith Evans -
Sam Charles
Sean Linden -
Haili Page
Natasha Linden -
Jennifer Bishop
Sharon Evans -
Jennifer Mawhinney
Audrey -
Amber Rothwell
Lauren -
Meg Roe
Lollipop Girl -
Jim Francis
Joe Ritchie -
Marc Baur
Plumber -
Patrick Earley
Jim -
Michael Convertino
Musician -
Clayton Haslop
Musician -
Dennis Karmazyn
Musician -
David Low
Musician -
Ken Yerke
Musician
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All Critics (132) | Top Critics (38) | Fresh (82) | Rotten (46) | DVD (20)
We Don't Live Here Anymore is, you might say, a movie for adults who are, perhaps, a smidge too impressed with being adults.
Top CriticI was fully absorbed in the characters and their casually outrageous behavior.
A terribly slim, pretentious movie that wallows in the monotonous, far-from- fascinating angst of its self-involved characters.
We Don't Live Here Anymore deftly captures the pain and suffocation of people who have fallen out of love and don't know who to blame. It just forgets to allow them -- or the audience -- to feel anything else.
Watts manages to make her Edith seem genuinely remorseful about her actions but unable to stop, and Ruffalo puts a believable hint of guilt in Jack's face that he carries through the film.
Earnest, overbearing and fully depressing, We Don't Live Here Anymore features a quartet of fine performances that are somewhat undermined by the numbing, one-note tone of the entire enterprise.
Movie about adultery for adults only.
Summons the exposed anatomy of adultery out of its awkward secrecy, casting an intriguing light that gently and intelligently intimates why infidelity can self-destruct one marriage, and repair another.
Summons the exposed anatomy of adultery out of its awkward secrecy, casting an intriguing light that gently and intelligently intimates why infidelity can self-destruct one marriage, and repair another.
For anyone who finds films about affairs boring, We Don't Live Here Anymorecould feel like being stuck in a bad marriage - for all the wrong reasons.
(...) Infrecuente en su incisiva exploración de conflictos humanos.
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"Ordinary Lives. Extraordinary Emotions."
Never have I watched a movie and been this turned off by the mere thought of it. We Don't Live Here Anymore is such a pretentious movie about two couples who cheat on each other. I will say I like Naomi Watts and Mark Ruffalo as actors but their characters along with Laura Dern(I don't care what anyone says; she's a horrible actress) and Peter Krause's characters are so selfish and and completely unlikable. I thought for a second that Dern's character was going to be decent, but that isn't the case either.
Basically by the hour mark I wanted all four characters to be shot. I didn't care how their marriages or affairs turned out; I just wanted the slow, melodramatic music to stop and the movie to end. It's a movie I really wish I wouldn't have watched and I don't say that too often.
I never want to think about this movie again, but Dern's unbelievable crying fits are engraved into my brain. How can anyone enjoy watching her act? The "I don't care, fuck anyone you want" story gets old after about 10 minutes. Then all we are left with is the talents of Watts and Ruffalo, which in my opinion is the reason this is almost watchable.