Married Life

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Married Life

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Married Life

Anna Williams, Chris Cooper, David Richmond-Peck, David Wenham, Erin Boyes

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.

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  • barrys
    October 10, 2009
    barrys
    Married 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)d, the plot very well developed, it has very good twists and an unexpected ending although it has some holes and a very slow rhythm at some moments. The cast is excellent. Chris Cooper, Pierce Brosnan, Patricia Clarkson and Rachel McAdams gave us almost perfect performances To conclude, this is a movie worth to see. Very recommendable.
  • susanriley
    June 4, 2009
    susanriley
    A decent viewing. Interesting take on married life and adult romantic relationships.
  • EarthlyAlien
    April 15, 2009
    EarthlyAlien
    Stylish 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)I Can't Give You Anything But Love," this is a captivating, atmospheric thriller with superb performances - especially from the very underrated Rachel McAdams.
  • sononothing
    March 22, 2009
    sononothing
    Married 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)o his lover. This is where things get a little complicated. Richard has fallen in love with Kay. Meanwhile Harry realizes that his wife is so fragile that she would be humiliated beyond belief by an abandonment. So Harry decides to kill her. Are you following me so far?

    This is one of those ensemble cast pieces that you see from time to time that is banking more on its cast than its script or direction. Cooper, McAdams, and Clarkson are great in their roles giving us performances that anyone would be proud of if they had been in another movie. After Brosnan had abandoned James Bond with The Matador I was hoping he would continue to shun that suave, womanizing exterior and try something different than what he's been doing since Remington Steele. I was disappointed. Brosnan plays Richard as a Jame Bond that Roger Moore would even say was too old to be seducing the young Kay. You could say the same thing about Cooper's Harry, but in that instance it was more mutual. Richard is merely a wolf that Brosnan plays by pulling a paint by numbers acting style that stifles the other actors. He tends to overact in some scenes and be barely visible in others.

    The script is a horrible piece that flows like a plugged toilet. Basic plot twists and basic reactions are the name of the game in this film with no one acting the way an actual human being would act in the same circumstances. I expect to have reality bullshitted to me in something like Alice in Wonderland, but when you're showing a quaint little town in the lake 1940's we have to have some real reactions not something to further the story along. The direction is mediocre at best and horrible at worst. Sergio Leone could get away with a close up to give the audience tension.Ira Sachs, who also wrote the screenplay, gives us wonderful views of the casts nostrils. Yes, if lighted correctly I could have seen Christ Coppers sinuses. Wonderful.

    I wonder why this thing was even called Married Life. The title doesn't fit to well. I would have called this film Crap. Pure crap. The only thing that's saving it from the dreaded half star is Cooper, McAdams, and Clarkson, whose acting save what this picture would have been. But saving this film would have been the equivalent of trying to bale out the Titanic with a measuring cup.
  • mwilliams078
    November 11, 2008
    mwilliams078
    Married Life, this movie was a disappointment to me. A very talented cast but the movie is a wash. Not horrible and have seen worse.
  • northburbs30
    December 28, 2009
    northburbs30
    Thoughtfully intense. Good character drama
  • ed
    December 11, 2009
    ed
    Simple, well paced, entertaining movie.
  • svmainus
    November 10, 2009
    svmainus
    Both 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)d and a way to rid of the wife he simply no longer wants to spend his life with. Takes place in 1949 and the colors uses, the costumes and the old noir way this was filmed is an absolute treat. May I add that Pierce Brosnan was an excellent choice as the suave bachelor friend of Cooper's and Patrica Clarkson is perfection as Cooper's wife. The DVD offers 3 alternate endings...all interesting.
  • braddad68
    November 8, 2009
    braddad68
    This was surprisingly watchable!
  • SFG71
    September 25, 2009
    SFG71
    24/09/09
    "Do you know what really goes on in the mind of the person with whom you sleep?"
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