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I Think I Love My Wife

In marriage no one can hear you scream.

2007 · 1h 34m · R Comedy, Romance
Directed by Chris Rock

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Overview

Richard Cooper is a married man and father of two who is just plain bored with married life. Not getting any sex from his wife, he resorts to ogling random women on the street to the point that he takes lunch late to look at them. When old crush Nikki Tru visits his office to get a reference letter, she becomes obsessed with Cooper and they begin a complicated relationship.

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Fresh

Rock's breakthrough as a director -- a chance for him to grapple openly with his status as a maturing (but still ostensibly immature) comedian.

Ben Kenigsberg, Time Out
Fresh

One of the film's key revelations is that his resistance to having an affair comes as much from wishing to maintain his lifestyle (the high-paying job, the nice house, the kids) as from loyalty to his wife. Why sharp observations like that one would need

Scott Tobias, AV Club
Fresh

Rock's version is funnier, blacker, hipper, and sexier, but Rohmer's shows a little more skin.

Jonathan F. Richards, Film.com
Rotten

Viagra jokes, I-have-a-headache rebuffs, a sequence devoted to the humiliation of buying condoms at a pharmacy...c'mon, Chris, you can do better than that.

Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York
Fresh

I Think I Love My Wife is first and foremost a sex comedy. But Rock is sharp enough to set it in a world where people of all races share the same dreams and desires -- if not the same real estate.

Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com

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