It could have pulled back the rock to reveal the squirmy things living underneath, but instead all we get is the rock.
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We Don't Live Here Anymore (2004)
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Reviews Counted:122
Fresh:79
Rotten:43
Average Rating:6.4/10
Consensus: A potent portrait of two couples with broken marriages.
Theatrical Release:Aug 13, 2004 Limited
Box Office: $1,904,214
Synopsis: Based on two works by Andre Dubus, WE DON'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE is a sexy and provocative drama about married life and its discontents. Keenly observed, the film charts the amorous affair of a... [More]
Starring: Mark Ruffalo, Naomi Watts, Peter Krause, Laura Dern
Director: John Curran
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Reviews for We Don't Live Here Anymore
Occasionally difficult to watch, but always gripping, and full of hard, painful truths, this is adult film making at its very best.
10/24/04
Failing to find the cinematic equivalent of Dubus’s vertical writing, Curran and Gross's movie strains for truths it never earns.
07/18/04
Based on two John Irving shorts John Curran's movie feels divided with a condensed narrative that doesn't do justice to the four main characters.**
08/23/04
A terribly slim, pretentious movie that wallows in the monotonous, far-from- fascinating angst of its self-involved characters.
09/03/04
A film for grown-ups in which actions have consequences and consequences aren't resolved with a lecture or a hug or a gun.
09/03/04
We Don't Live Here Anymore manages to get at some difficult truths ... but there's a certain distance to it that prevents it from being a truly heart-wrenching film.
08/26/04
If you want to see how other couples fight, We Don't Live Here Anymore is as good a place as any to visit. But why, exactly, would you want to?
08/13/04
Top CriticWe Don't Live Here Anymore is, you might say, a movie for adults who are, perhaps, a smidge too impressed with being adults.
10/01/04
The people who voted this a screenwriting award need to have their pathos meters readjusted as well as their tendency to read more meaning into a film than it provides
08/12/04
The film's subtler truths seep through in scenes where one of the adults spends time with their children, who are more aware of what's going on than any of the grown-ups.
09/10/04
A bracingly mature look at the messiness of matrimony.
09/13/04
We Don't Live Here Anymore convincingly dissects the impact of adultery on two shaky marriages in a small New England college town.
08/11/04
(...) Infrecuente en su incisiva exploración de conflictos humanos.
06/05/05
The revelation here is Dern, whose fierce, intensely moving portrayal of a woman struggling to hold on to what she cares about is the movie’s most urgent anchor of sympathy.
08/14/04
...feels like a freshly unearthed treasure from a more sophisticated era. All lingering glances and electrically supercharged silences, it's a tiny film of enormous power.
08/18/04
These are terrifically talented actors wasted on a film that's short on insight, long on self-pity and essentially anti-erotic.
08/27/04
This cautionary tale for adults might be a little close to the bone, perhaps, for some audience members, but it's a sincere and finely-wrought ensemble piece.
09/07/04
[A] smart insight into modern-day relationships.
01/27/04
Top CriticWe Don't Live Here Anymore frames with precision emotional moments in the lives of people who build their own prisons and, over time, plot escapes.
08/19/04
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