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We Don't Live Here Anymore

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We Don't Live Here Anymore

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An academic who neglects his alcoholic wife, and routinely sleeps with his students, begins an affair with a bored housewife - but the pair are unaware their own partners are also about to start a relationship with each other, and that their children know all about their parents' lies and infidelities. Drama, starring Mark Ruffalo, Naomi Watts, Laura Dern and Peter Krause

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A star rating of 4 out of 5.

Leslie Felperin

The old Latin proverb observes that omne animal post coitum triste est (after sex, all animals are sad), which would explain why the four libidinous characters in this drama seem so perpetually depressed. In this autumnal chamber piece, they do it - motivated less by pleasure or love than by loneliness and revenge - al fresco, in hotels, cars and even hallways, while their spouses sleep upstairs. Rumpled academic Jack (Mark Ruffalo) is married to alcoholic Terry (Laura Dern) but having an affair with elegant Edith (Naomi Watts) who's married to Jack's best friend Hank (Peter Krause), a creative-writing teacher who sleeps mostly with his students. Painfully poignant at times, the misery quotient is cut by stabs of much-needed humour, while the superb acting nails through looks and gestures what the characters can't actually say in words.

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Cast

rolenameJack LindenMark RuffaloTerry LindenLaura DernHank EvansPeter KrauseEdith EvansNaomi WattsSean LindenSam CharlesNatasha LindenHaili PageSharon EvansJennifer Bishop (2)AudreyJennifer MawhinneyLaurenAmber RothwellLollipop girlMeg Roe

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rolenameDirectorJohn Curran (1)

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Theatrical distributor

Redbus

Released on

2005-06-17

Languages

English

Guidance

Contains swearing and sex scenes.

Available on

DVD

Formats

Colour

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