This story is like the shot of the passing train that keeps repeating - it's loud, but it's not going anywhere, and the moment that it's gone, you forget you ever saw it.
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08/27/04
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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
Dramatically slack, the story isn't driven by plot so much as by the slow revelation of character.
08/26/04
Top CriticRuffalo, Watts and especially Dern are splendid, but Krause lets Clark down with a performance that feels analyzed rather than lived.
08/26/04
Much credit goes to the film's four stars, as well as to Curran, who chose them and skillfully directed them.
08/26/04
An intricate drama that derives tragedy from emotional indifference, immaturity and fatigue, qualities that have spelled doom for more than a few marriages.
08/26/04
Top CriticWe 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
It could have pulled back the rock to reveal the squirmy things living underneath, but instead all we get is the rock.
08/26/04
Scene by scene, the movie is precise, vibrant, and, for all its turmoil, moving.
08/24/04
Top CriticBased 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
Somewhere between John Updike and "Knott's Landing," this is suburban angst and adultery, with meaningful glances, inexpressible longing, fumbled groping, and hangovers.
08/22/04
A terrific performance by Laura Dern is the sole reason to see this pretentious slog through the miserable lives of unlikable people.
08/22/04
The four principals are spectacular here, led by Dern's career best effort.
08/21/04
A highly charged, poignant study of the imperfections within human nature and the frailty of otherwise powerful love relationships.
08/21/04
If you can deal with the muddy footprints, the mess is worth it.
08/20/04
Top Critic[The] performances stay with you.
08/20/04
The acting is fervent, and the insights cut deep.
08/20/04
Top CriticThe key problem of this acting exercise is that we can sense what must come, and sadly it does.
08/20/04
Beautifully, optimistically depressing.
08/20/04
A bookish picture without a book's depth.
08/20/04
Inadequate emotionally and psychologically.
08/20/04
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