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Generally favorable reviews- based on 26 Ratings

  • Starring: Laura Dern, Mark Ruffalo, Naomi Watts, Peter Krause
  • Summary: Two couples must sift through the layers of betrayal and self-deception to face their marriages, each other, and ultimately, themselves. (Warner Independent Pictures)
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 23 out of 37
  2. Negative: 0 out of 37
  1. The film is at times harrowing to watch, yet it's also wry and delicate and absorbing. It's infused with the messy excitement of imperfect passion.
  2. A sense of unease, of incompleteness, is, I think, the appropriate response to this movie. Instead of trying to fill in the blanks, Curran and Gross leave things open and ambiguous. Just like life.
  3. Reviewed by: Duane Byrge
    80
    Director John Curran has masterfully managed to convey flesh and blood within the permutations of the sometimes clinical story. Enhancing the people-next-door nature of this saga were the film's smart technical contributions.
  4. Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    60
    Though the violence in this film never becomes physical, the psychic wounds these people inflict on one another cut so deeply you wish it would. It's a grueling experience.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 13
  2. Negative: 4 out of 13
  1. Good cast but weak and dull storyline ,felt like a terrible waste of talent and effort to make such a pointless movie.Wish I hadn't wasted my time watching it. Expand

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