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Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: WATTS,NAOMI
EAN: 9780790795553
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Surround Sound, NTSC
ISBN: 0790795558
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: December 14, 2004
Running Time: 99 minutes
Sales Rank: 17257
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2004
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Two couples form adulterous relationships to seek refuge from their failing marriages.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: R
Release Date: 27-SEP-2005
Media Type: DVD
Amazon.com:
Few movies offer as intimate a portrait of a fragmenting marriage as We Don't Live Here Anymore. Jack (Mark Ruffalo, You Can Count on Me) and Terry (Laura Dern, Citizen Ruth) are best friends with Edith (Naomi Watts, Mulholland Drive) and Hank (Peter Krause, HBO's Six Feet Under)--but Edith and Jack, frustrated with their own marriages, have fallen into an affair that gradually erodes all of their lives. Most movies pretend their sex scenes are really about the characters' emotions; in this case, it's true. The movie's greatest strength, however, is that it's as much about parents and children as husbands and wives; the children of both marriage are as caught up in the events as the adults, and are often more clear-eyed about it all. The whole cast turns in strong performances, but Ruffalo and Dern are particularly vivid. A sad, hopeful, beautiful movie. --Bret Fetzer
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - JOHN CURRAN, OPUS 2
*** 2004. Based on Andre Dubus's We Don't Live Here Anymore: Three Novellas, WE DON'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE was directed by John Curran. A prize at Sundance for the screenplay. Two friends, two couples, two sordid affairs. The film is very depressing and is only worth a look if you're interested in the problems of married couples and that's also unfortunately its limit because John Curran is not Ingmar Bergman and never manages to give a universal dimension to his script. Already forgotten.
Rating:  - Tragic and heartbreaking; one of the purest and most effective looks into the lives of the married...
There is something so hauntingly real about `We Don't Live Here Anymore' that you end up walking away from this movie feeling dirty; like a sinner. I remember the first time I watched this I wept because I felt every ounce of pain and regret and fear and guilt that was running through the veins of the characters on the screen. I remember that I felt those same feelings when reading Andre Dubus' brilliant novella's that inspired this film (all of which can be found in the compellation work `We Don't ... Read More
Rating: - True to form couples' drama
This film never makes excuses for its infidelity but instead shows the humanity of it. The characters are not only caught between love and lust, but between unfulfilling love and idealistic love. All actors are solid and the script is airtight. I appreciated the interpretation of these short stories and the direction smartly focused on the emotional throughline. Mark Ruffalo and Laura Dern share some great scenes, and prove that they can pull off any role.
Rating:  - Over Acting for Beginners
More bad acting and false passion than any human can stand. If you can empathise with any of these characters see a doctor.
Rating: - and the winner for best casting is . . . ?
I don't wish to be irreverent, but my main response to this story was that Jack and Edith and Hank and Terry seemed much more physically and emotionally suited to each other than their mates. For one thing, Terry (Dern) was taller than Jack (Ruffalo), and sort of stooped over him in certain scenes (menacingly, not unlike her father, in movies of yore). I suppose the idea was that the domain of marriage is really the realm of interiority. But, frankly, I feel the physical has a lot to do with it. Whether ... Read More
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