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We Don't Live Here Anymore

Why do we want what we can't have?

2004 · 1h 41m · R Drama, Romance
Directed by John Curran

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Overview

Married couple Jack and Terry Linden are experiencing a difficult period in their relationship. When Jack decides to step outside the marriage, he becomes involved with Edith, who happens to be the wife of his best friend and colleague, Hank Evans. Learning of their partners' infidelity, Terry and Hank engage in their own extramarital affair together. Now, both marriages and friendships are on the brink of collapse.

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All reviews
65%
Tomatometer
Rotten

We Don't Live Here Anymore is, you might say, a movie for adults who are, perhaps, a smidge too impressed with being adults.

Jay Boyar, Orlando Sentinel
Fresh

I was fully absorbed in the characters and their casually outrageous behavior.

Andrew Sarris, New York Observer
Rotten

We Don't Live Here Anymore deftly captures the pain and suffocation of people who have fallen out of love and don't know who to blame. It just forgets to allow them -- or the audience -- to feel anything else.

Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald
Fresh

Watts manages to make her Edith seem genuinely remorseful about her actions but unable to stop, and Ruffalo puts a believable hint of guilt in Jack's face that he carries through the film.

Bill Muller, Arizona Republic
Rotten

Earnest, overbearing and fully depressing, We Don't Live Here Anymore features a quartet of fine performances that are somewhat undermined by the numbing, one-note tone of the entire enterprise.

Tom Long, Detroit News

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