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We Don't Live Here Anymore (2004)

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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: 34
Fresh: 24 | Rotten: 10

A potent portrait of two couples with broken marriages.

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Movie Info

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,

R, 1 hr. 41 min.

Drama

Directed By: John Curran

Written By: Larry Gross

In Theaters: Aug 13, 2004 Wide

On DVD: Dec 14, 2004

Box Office:$1.9M

Warner Independent

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Cast

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
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Ken Yerke
Musician

Critic Reviews for We Don't Live Here Anymore

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We Don't Live Here Anymore is, you might say, a movie for adults who are, perhaps, a smidge too impressed with being adults.

October 1, 2004 Full Review Source: Orlando Sentinel

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Jay Boyar

Orlando Sentinel

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I was fully absorbed in the characters and their casually outrageous behavior.

September 9, 2004 Full Review Source: New York Observer

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Andrew Sarris

New York Observer

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A terribly slim, pretentious movie that wallows in the monotonous, far-from- fascinating angst of its self-involved characters.

September 3, 2004 Full Review Source: Sacramento Bee

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Joe Baltake

Sacramento Bee

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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.

September 2, 2004 Full Review Source: Arizona Republic

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Bill Muller

Arizona Republic

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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.

August 27, 2004 Comment

Tom Long

Detroit News

Top Critic

Painful, powerful adaptation of two of Andre Dubus' beautifully frank stories.

August 27, 2004 Full Review Source: Denver Post

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Lisa Kennedy

Denver Post

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Movie about adultery for adults only.

December 29, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media

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Nell Minow

Common Sense Media

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.

June 28, 2007 Full Review | Comment

Prairie Miller

Long Island Press

May 15, 2007 Full Review | Comment

Prairie Miller

Long Island Press

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.

July 15, 2005 Full Review Source: RTE Interactive (Dublin, Ireland)

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Harry Guerin

RTE Interactive (Dublin, Ireland) Source: RTE Interactive (Dublin, Ireland)

(...) Infrecuente en su incisiva exploraci�n de conflictos humanos.

June 5, 2005 Full Review Source: Uruguay Total

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Enrique Buchichio

Uruguay Total

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Terry Linden: You gotta admit... even adultery has morality to it.�"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

August 10, 2011

Melvin White

Super Reviewer

A competently acted but predictable and formulaic melodrama centering around two couples who become sexually intertwined. The film's inability to give us a reason to care about any of the characters involved is its major downfall, since if we don't care whatsoever about any of these four miserable individuals, why

June 18, 2011