Married Life Details

2008

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. Read more

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Married Life

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.

Starring	Pierce Brosnan, Patricia Clarkson, Rebecca Codling, Chris Cooper, Pauline Crawford, Rachel McAdams
Director	Ira Sachs
Studio	20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 30 mins
Certificate
Genres	Drama, Romance
Language	DVD: English
Released	DVD: 26 Jan 2009 Production year: 2008
Format	DVD

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  Is it possible to build happiness on the misery of others? Pierce Brosnan (pictured), as the cynical Richard, deploys... read more on Time Out

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  • Posted 04 Nov 2008

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  A disappointing and unrewarding experience

  Set in the late 1940s, this is quite a pointless attempt at, well, being an enjoyable film. It is quite harmless really, but that in itself is quite a crime. With the talent involved, it is not wrong to expect something with a little more substance.
  
  Chris Cooper plays Harry, who is having an affair with a glamourous young widow (played by Rachel McAdams), but is torn about how to split from his current wife, Pat, played by Patricia Clarkson. He has the bright idea that she couldn't possibly recover from a divorce and would never find happiness if Harry left her, so Harry's solution is to... kill her. Of course. What a wonderful idea...
  
  Pierce Brosnan's character, Ritchie, narrates the film (a pointless feature which adds nothing) and the former Bond smirks his way through the movie in a very unchallenging role for him (check out existential western Seraphim Falls for Brosnan's career best...). Chris Cooper is excellent as always, making quite a pathetic character at least sympathetic, of sorts - but he is far better than this material. Patricia Clarkson will not earn an easier paycheque, I suspect, than with this quite inconsequential role. Rachel McAdams, with a suitably Monroe-esque blonde rinse, is the surprise here - a performance of restraint and tenderness, hers is the most impressive showing.
  
  But good grief, this is a silly trite little movie. Go and watch something like Bright Young Things or Gosford Park instead, for a period movie with a sombre twist.

  • • A customer from Edinburgh, Scotland
    • Posted 02 Feb 2009 01:33

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  Married Life

  Does just enough to sustain your interest but lacks guile and wit. The ideal material for a black comedy and an opportunity missed! We afford very little empathy with any of the central characters they seem to fail to connect with each other never mind the viewing audience. Some pluses are the set and costume design giving a sense of the period and Chris Cooper underplaying his role as the cheating and conflicted husband -about the only redeeming aspect.

  • • Dazc from Morpeth
    • Posted 13 Feb 2009 08:40

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  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....