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We Don't Live Here Anymore

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We Don't Live Here Anymore (2004)

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Reviews Counted: 120 Fresh: 79  Rotten:41 Average Rating: 6.4/10
 
Consensus: A potent portrait of two couples with broken marriages.
 

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Runtime: 1 hr 43 mins

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 married man with his best friend’s wife and how their liaison upsets the delicate balance of... 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 married man with his best friend’s wife and how their liaison upsets the delicate balance of relationships, culminating in a fling between their spouses. Unfolding from four alternating viewpoints, the story captures the paradoxical actions of loving parents determined to save marriages they secretly long to escape, as the couples struggle through their emotional and sexual entanglement. With a wry, knowing humor, WE DON’T LIVE HERE ANYMORE reveals the perverse logic of infidelity -- and the complicity, denial and occasional cruelty that can accompany it. College instructors in a small university town, Jack Linden and Hank Evans have an easygoing friendship involving runs between classes and drinks at the pub after work. Jack’s wife Terry is best friends with Hank’s Edith, and the four have dinner parties where, once the kids have gone to bed, the wine flows freely and the record collection is in constant rotation. But the Evanses and the Lindens are not the happy couples they appear to be. For Jack and Terry, the everyday tribulations of being parents of young children trying to make ends meet have taken their toll on the once passionate couple. And Hank, a self-absorbed writer at heart, is fond of his daughter and family life, but not all that interested in monogamy, it turns out. Trying to find a way to make her marriage work under the new circumstances, Edith turns to Jack for comfort. What begins as a playfully lascivious affair erupts into a season of infidelity, leaving all four to sift through the emotional wreckage to find their way home. -- © Warner Independent Pictures [More]

Genre: Dramas

Starring: Mark Ruffalo, Naomi Watts, Peter Krause, Laura Dern

Director: John Curran
Screenwriter: Larry Gross
Producer: Harvey Kahn, Jonas Goodman, Naomi Watts
Composer: Michael Convertino

DVD Info

Release:

Feb 12, 2005

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Keep Case - Amaray
  • Letterboxed - 2.40
  • Single Side - Dual Layer

Audio:

  • Dolby Surround 5.1 English, French/Quebecois
  • Subtitles - English - Closed Captioned
  • Subtitles - French, Spanish - Optional

Additional Release Material:

  • Trailers - Original Theatrical Trailer

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So packed with serious themes that it's almost unbearable.

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Rich Cline
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Occasionally difficult to watch, but always gripping, and full of hard, painful truths, this is adult film making at its very best.

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Matthew Turner
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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.

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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.

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

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... feels like one of the saddest songs you're ever heard.

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01/29/05
Philip Martin
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A modest film that is surprisingly effective in its directness and fascinating for its complex portrayals of marital distress in action.

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01/20/05
Derek Smith
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Like the movie's title, there doesn't appear to be anybody home in this picture.

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[Y]our expectations of climax, resolution, consolation fall away and you're quite simply present in every detail of every moment.

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11/19/04
Alan Dale
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Keenly observed and laced with humor, Larry Gross' narrative has the kind of emotional power that derives from accumulation of detail and realistic dialogue.

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