Anna Williams, Chris Cooper, David Richmond-Peck
A very gentle middle-aged man is married, but when he falls in love with another woman, he decides that to divorce his wife will be to humiliate her too much. So instead he decides to kill her.
DVD Release Date: September 2, 2008
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October 10, 2009Married Life is a nice thriller with very good black humor about a man with a lot of years being married and having a lover he decides that it is very painful for his wife to ask her for the divorce so instead of divorcing his wife, he chooses to murder her. The story is very goo...( read more)
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June 4, 2009A decent viewing. Interesting take on married life and adult romantic relationships.
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April 15, 2009Stylish without being overly stylized, intelligent without being boring, Married Life is a classy throwback to the good old days when subtlety meant something at the cinema and watching Hitchcock was a good reason to stay home. From the very start, with Doris Day singing "...( read more)
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March 22, 2009Married Life is about a middle aged man named Harry Allen (Chris Cooper) who has fallen in love with a younger woman named Kay (Rachel McAdams) and decides to leave his wife Pat (Patricia Clarkson). He discusses all of this with his friend Richard and even introduces his friend t...( read more)
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November 11, 2008Married Life, this movie was a disappointment to me. A very talented cast but the movie is a wash. Not horrible and have seen worse.
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November 10, 2009Both subtle and dark, much in the style of Hitchcock, this thriller is wonderfully told, beautifully filmed and above all offers excellent performances by everyone involved. Chris Cooper delivers in his role as a husband caught between the want to be with his beautiful girlfrien...( read more)
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September 25, 200924/09/09
"Do you know what really goes on in the mind of the person with whom you sleep?" -
September 23, 2009Ira Sachs' darkly comedic, murder and passion-drenched domestic drama is never quite as funny, as disturbing or as involving as we hope. Chris Cooper is Harry Allen, a happily-married businessman in the suburbs of 1949. His wife, Pat (Patricia Clarkson) and he have been gently an...( read more)
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September 17, 2009Not that bad of a movie. A little twisted, but it has James Bond and David Wenham.
Critic Reviews
March 21, 2008
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
March 21, 2008
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
This quiet, closed-in picture with its unsurprising twists and turns, lacks the steamy passion of its pulp roots. full review
March 20, 2008
Colin Covert, The Minneapolis Star Tribune
The story is original, the characters complex. full review
March 14, 2008
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
It's strange. It's different. It's arresting, and it's definitely intentional. Ira Sachs knew what he wanted to do, and he's a talent worth watching. full review
March 14, 2008
Ty Burr, Boston Globe
Sirk or Billy Wilder could have done something with it. Sachs still has a ways to go. full review
March 14, 2008
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
You may not like it if you insist on counting the deck after the game and coming up with 52. But if you get 51 and are amused by how the missing card was made to vanish, this may be a movie to your li... full review
March 7, 2008
Kyle Smith, New York Post
Just when things should be boiling over, the script goes lukewarm. full review
March 3, 2008
David Edelstein, New York Magazine
The movie is a goof on Hitchcock and Sirk -- a period (late forties) soap opera with nasty sexual undertones and the omnipresent threat of murder. full review
October 1, 2007
Nick Schager, Lessons of Darkness
Doesn't have much to say about marriage other than that it's complex, and often fraught with disappointment, deception and conflicting urges. full review
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