The movie may leave its audience feeling a little battered ... Still, the film's honesty, along with its refusal to pander to Hollywood happy endings, is well worth the beating.
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08/20/04
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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
Top CriticA miserable movie about miserable people having miserable sex.
08/20/04
Too desultory.
08/20/04
Top CriticThe film astutely finds a vivid personality for each character.
08/20/04
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08/19/04
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08/19/04
These are people whose disappointments and emotional struggle have produced a world of resentment and dishonesty that's unpleasant to visit. There's nothing to make us want to stay there and witness the hurts produced by excruciatingly selfish acts.
08/19/04
A crackling, claustrophobic chamber piece.
08/19/04
Usually American marital problems are left to the soap operas; it's nice to see them tackled by experts, piercing personas and peeling open hearts.
08/19/04
Top CriticA movie as empty as its title. A lot of good acting is going on, but there's nobody home.
08/19/04
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
...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
Well acted and designed of a piece [but] too diffident and emotionally murky to elicit a sustained reaction. The movie could have benefited from a more proactive script.
08/16/04
With a hungry, compulsive, tender, angry, and passionate performance, Ruffalo has definitely shed the shiftless stoner typecast.
08/15/04
A sense of unease, of incompleteness, is, I think, the appropriate response to this movie. Instead of trying to fill in the blanks, Curran and Gross leave things open and ambiguous. Just like life.
08/15/04
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08/14/04
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
Annoying and familiar, the adults settle into sameness, as if too tired to imagine beyond it.
08/13/04
An impeccably acted, spiritually draining dissection of adultery in a bucolic college town.
08/13/04
Pretty potent.
08/13/04
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