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  • Actors: Mark Ruffalo, Laura Dern, Peter Krause, Naomi Watts
  • Directors: John Curran
  • Format: PAL, Widescreen
  • Language English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Warner Home Video
  • DVD Release Date: 30 Jan 2006
  • Run Time: 95 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000BY9CF4
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 40,548 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Jack Linden (Mark Ruffalo) and Hank Evans (Peter Krause) are best friends who both teach at the same university in a small New England town. They both have young children and Jack's wife, Terry (Laura Dern) is close with Hank's wife, Edith (Naomi Watts). But while things appear happy on the surface, there are smouldering pockets of discontent underneath. Financial struggle and domestic boredom has drained the passion from Jack and Terry's marriage, while Hank's numerous infidelities and self-absorption has prompted Edith to find both comfort and sexual fulfilment with Jack. As Jack begins spending more and more time with Edith, it becomes obvious to Terry, whose anger culminates in a sexual encounter with Hank. Now that the deception has come full circle, both couples are left to decide the futures of their shattered unions. With a screenplay that incorporates 'We Don't Live Here Anymore' and 'Adultery', two short stories by Andre Dubus (IN THE BEDROOM), John Curran's film appears deceptively simple. While it's a garden-variety tale of suburban ennui and infidelity on the surface, it is brought to multi-layered life with a quartet of elegantly nuanced performances that fit together like the interlocking pieces of a puzzle. Plot is almost secondary to the emotional sparks that Ruffalo, Dern, Krause, and Watts give off, expertly and in equal measure.

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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Beautifully observed drama of adultery and love, 16 Feb 2006
By pointone (Bournemouth UK) - See all my reviews
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This is my favourite plot, two married couples developing cross relationships.

On the one hand we have Jack (Ruffalo) and Terry Linden (Dern), financially constrained and with a deep underlying togetherness that seems separate to their marriage. In the interviews on the DVD Dern looks the right age to be Ruffalo’s wife, but in the film it seems she has been deliberately photographed to look older, which seems to accentuate her vulnerability, desperation and feelings of alienation as she slowly becomes aware of her husbands infidelity.

On the other hand are the Linden’s best friends Hank (Krause) and Edith Evans (Watts), less deeply committed to each other than their friends the Lindens, and with Hank emotionally involved and frustrated in trying to get his novel and poems published.

The dialogue is absolutely superb, natural and incisive and always at the service of the drama, these are real people, they live, we know them. Also the scenes with their children are beautifully observed, sometimes clearly showing the adult absorbed in one thing and the child in another.

The acting by all four principals is as fine as you are likely to encounter, and the chemistry in all directions is absolutely right.

Welcome digressions into some nice countryside, very fine responsive music, and direction that is so good it doesn’t seem to exist, this film appears real life not a drama.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Shows the bleakness of exhausted relationships, 5 Dec 2007
By Dr. R. G. Bullock "Gavin Bullock" (Winchester, UK) - See all my reviews
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This is not an easy film. It shows two married couples who are good friends and their relationships within and between the couples. It shows well the bleakness of relationships which have lost their love. The adultery is a symptom of the dying love, not the cause. The miasma that lies across the film from beginning to end is the lack of any real communication. Conversation, even in the thrill of making love to their best friend's partner, is superficial and totally lacking in passion. Tendresse is absent. Only cynicism posing as wit adds any zest to dialogue, although there are the usual stand up rows. The Laura Dern character is really the only one to show that her love for her husband is intact yet this is crushed relentlessly but ultimately she is the one who best adjusts to her circumstances.

Many of us will have suffered the breakdown of relationships and this film has unpleasant resonances because it is so close to the bone. The title could refer to the loveless marriages, emptied of the feelings they once possessed, like the echoing, bare rooms of a deserted house.
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Be patient, and you might this film quite beautiful., 4 Nov 2007
By Ms. E. Lewis ".Ella Mae." (Surrey/W. Sussex) - See all my reviews
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Whether you enjoy this film or not is, in the large, down to you.
You could view it and believe the pace to be sluggish, the whole temperature of the film tepid and the plot over used and with nothing new to offer.
Admittedly if you want a fast pace and something grippping, this won't be your cup of tea. But you may enjoy it because, these actors have done a wonderful job. This film is subtle, it requires for you to have a little patience and understand this isn't meant to come across as a deeply over dramatised film, we're meant to see these characters as real. They've crafted their roles carefully, they're all flawed, like in reality, they are also, thank God, not all polished, perfectly dressed Hollywood Barbies. They are two good looking men, and their wives are different, yet attractive. Naomi in this role looks very different, she looks like a boring suburban mum.
If you look a little harder and think of these people and their struggle as real, you'll see beautiful acting, a subtlety that makes this film believable, a lovely score that brings out the films underlying sorrow and a script that shows the reality of adultery and marriage, without the frills.

A lovely film, if you're prepared to be patient.
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