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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.

69

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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Average Rating: 3.2/5
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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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Larry Gross

Dec 14, 2004

$1.9M

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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.

October 1, 2004 Full Review Source: 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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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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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.

September 3, 2004 Full Review Source: Miami Herald
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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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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
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Movie about adultery for adults only.

December 29, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media
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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
Long Island Press

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.

May 15, 2007 Full Review
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)

(...) Infrecuente en su incisiva exploración de conflictos humanos.

June 5, 2005 Full Review Source: Uruguay Total
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Audience Reviews for We Don't Live Here Anymore

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 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.
August 10, 2011
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Melvin White

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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 would we want to learn about them? As said, the acting is superb, especially Ruffalo and Dern, but Krause's character gets left behind big time, and the kids that are treasured so much by the characters as well as the story in general get next to no development, which isn't good when you consider the film's emotionally heavy climax. A forgettable drama that needed more development and a story brave enough to take risks.
June 18, 2011
Dan Schultz

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