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We Don't Live Here Anymore

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Married couple Jack (Mark Ruffalo) and Terry Linden (Laura Dern) are experiencing a difficult period in their relationship. When Jack decides to step outside the marriage, he becomes involved with Edith (Naomi Watts), who happens to be the wife of his best friend and colleague, Hank Evans (Peter Krause). Learning of their partners' infidelity, Terry and Hank engage in their own extramarital affair together. Now, both marriages and friendships are on the brink of collapse.
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We Don't Live Here Anymore is often overly moody and grim, but it's made watchable by the strong performances for its four principal actors.

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Nell Minow Common Sense Media Movie about adultery for adults only. Rated: 2/5 Dec 29, 2010 Full Review Empire Magazine Rated: 2/5 Jun 25, 2005 Full Review Independent (UK) Rated: 4/5 Jun 17, 2005 Full Review Felicia Feaster Creative Loafing [A] ponderously "important" but emotionally hollow analysis of infidelity's cruel undertow. Feb 3, 2020 Full Review Kaleem Aftab The List It's the relationship that doesn't involve sex between [Mark Ruffalo] and [Peter Krause] that's the real clincher. Their games of one-upmanship and bravado fizzle with a kinetic tension... Rated: 4/5 Apr 24, 2019 Full Review Gregory Freitas Hollywood.com Rated: 2/5 Nov 20, 2008 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member Dramma che lega a doppio filo le vite di due coppie di "amici" che vivono crisi di coppia ed intrighi amorosi. I dialoghi sono ben strutturati ed i personaggi ben strutturati; forse la pecca maggiore è far girare tutto intorno a Mark Ruffalo, che forse è il meno interessante dei quattro. Nel complesso i due caratteri sono creati molto meglio e sono molto sensuali. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/12/23 Full Review Audience Member Good performances, mostly Laura Dern ?, incredibly depressing, based on stories by Andre Dubus Rated 3 out of 5 stars 08/06/17 Full Review Audience Member Intense and very well acted. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/17/23 Full Review Audience Member Scathing look at two couples and the painful stages of their disintegrating marriages. Wonderfully acted, especially from Laura Dern. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/09/23 Full Review Audience Member There is nothing new here, but just great acting from the whole cast, and especially Mark Ruffalo and Laura Dern who really chew up the scenes they are in. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Audience Member "We Don't Live Here Anymore" begins at the ending of two marriages. The couples are Jack and Terry (Mark Ruffalo and Laura Dern), Hank and Edith (Peter Krause and Naomi Watts). The four have been friends for years, and they know each other too well - still there, though, is the plausibility that they're attracted to one another. Maybe that's why they eventually decide to play spouse swap and hope the consequences aren't too cruel. If they weren't so unlikable, we'd possibly relish watching their potentially juicy infidelities. But no. "We Don't Live Here Anymore" doesn't do anything besides give us too many shrill arguments, too many selfish characters. Dramas that entail a marriage on the rocks can make for compelling entertainment (cough "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"), but a single false move can place a so-called "marriage dissolution" film in a purgatory less enjoyable than that of a mid-life-crisis. It's too bad that "We Don't Live Here Anymore" is a movie made completely out of false moves without a hint of truth in sight. But anyway, back to the couples. They were all once happily married, but kids, lost opportunities, and an overall feeling of discontent has left them miserable. Jack and Edith are having an affair, meeting in shady hotels, forests, and even each other's houses to rendezvous - but all dirtiness aside, both feel much too guilty to do anything serious regarding their physical attraction. Terry, meanwhile, is dissatisfied in the role of a homemaker; with Jack's standoffishness to fuel the fire, she feels as though she is failing at the few jobs life throws at her every day. Hank, the most thinly written character in the movie and possibly a sociopath, is a serial cheater who doesn't understand why infidelity could ruin a marriage - to him, lack of conscience is a given. Sooner or later, though, the truth about the entire situation comes to light, but it's surprising just how much it doesn't have an effect on us. The writing is stilted, the dialogue coming across with the forced effort of the play that draped the core of 1977's "Opening Night", and the characters just aren't winsome enough for us to care about what happens to them. Jack and Edith's affair is only thinly developed - chemistry darts around them. Technically, this probably should happen - they aren't meant to be together - but the desperation doesn't seem drenched in sadness, instead boredom. And poor Dern and Krause: Dern, as terrific as she is, is given a role that requires her to be raucous at the worst of times, and Krause seems to dwell under the shadow of his fellow actors in the thin, philandering husband role. Other complaints abound (strange how characters have flashbacks from the camera's point-of-view instead of their own, how a voiceover details the film for a narrow five minutes then miraculously disappears), but I'd rather not dwell on them. The performances are good, but "We Don't Live Here Anymore" doesn't have enough of a soul to make sitting through its bleak 98 minutes worth it. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/03/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Married couple Jack (Mark Ruffalo) and Terry Linden (Laura Dern) are experiencing a difficult period in their relationship. When Jack decides to step outside the marriage, he becomes involved with Edith (Naomi Watts), who happens to be the wife of his best friend and colleague, Hank Evans (Peter Krause). Learning of their partners' infidelity, Terry and Hank engage in their own extramarital affair together. Now, both marriages and friendships are on the brink of collapse.
Director
John Curran
Producer
Harvey Kahn, Naomi Watts, Jonas Goodman
Screenwriter
Andre Dubus, Larry Gross
Distributor
Warner Independent
Production Co
Renaissance Films, Front Street Productions
Rating
R (Sexual Content|Language)
Genre
Drama, Romance
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Jan 20, 2004, Original
Release Date (Streaming)
Dec 1, 2008
Box Office (Gross USA)
$2.0M
Runtime
1h 41m
Sound Mix
Dolby Digital, Surround
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