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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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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,
Aug 13, 2004 Wide
Dec 14, 2004
$1.9M
Warner Independent
All Critics (132) | Top Critics (35) | 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.
I 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.
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.
Painful, powerful adaptation of two of Andre Dubus' beautifully frank stories.
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.
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
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, 2011Super Reviewer
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