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Name: Married Life
Released: 2008-3-28
Cast: Chris Cooper, Pierce Brosnan, Patricia Clarkson, Rachel McAdams, David Richmond-Peck

Married Life

PG-13
1h 31m
2008

55%

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A meek man falls for a beautiful, younger woman. His main obstacles are his good friend with an equally strong attraction to her and his controlling wife, whom he'd like to spare the agony of divorce by poisoning her.

Director:

Ira Sachs

Writer:

Ira Sachs, Oren Moverman

Cast:

Chris Cooper, Pierce Brosnan, Patricia Clarkson, Rachel McAdams, David Richmond-Peck

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

55%

Critics Consensus: Married Life has excellent performances and flashes of dark wit, but it suffers from tonal shifts and uneven pacing.

Reviews

Senses of Cinema

Dan Sallitt

Failing to orient itself in any way, it becomes a vacuum, a rote recitation of the mechanics of the murder plot.

The United States' well-off middle class of the 1950s, its taboos, stereotypes and lifestyles, are reflected in this interesting and harsh film. [Full review in Spanish]

March 22, 2018

FULL REVIEW

Time Out

Joshua Rothkopf

March 3, 2019

CinePassion

Fernando F. Croce

The roundelay structure and Hitchcockian nods could have easily given way to a sardonic puppet theater, but Sachs and screenwriter Oren Moverman care too much about their characters to turn them into pawns