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Married Life

Do you know what really goes on in the mind of the person with whom you sleep?

Set just before the 1950s, this wry film is about a seemingly happily-married couple. In reality, the love has long died, and the husband has found a new pretty young thing that he wants to marry. However, he still has compassion for his wife and does not wish to cause her the pain of divorce, so instead he decides to slowly poison her. Unfortunately for him, his good-looking bachelor best friend is also immediately smitten with the new girlfriend, and sees her as the solution to his single life...

90 minutes, Mature Accompaniment under 13
Crime, Drama, Romance, On the art circuit

Credits

Cast

Pierce Brosnan, Chris Cooper, Patricia Clarkson, Rachel McAdams, David Richmond-Peck

Director

Ira Sachs

Screenplay

Ira Sachs, Oren Moverman, from the book by John Bingham

Music

Dickon Hinchliffe

Cinematography

Peter Deming

Editing

Affonso Gonçalves

Sound formats

Dolby Digital, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, DTS

Soundtrack

Not available

Made in

2007

Produced by

Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, Anonymous Content, Firm Films

SA Distributor

Nu Metro

FPB Report (SA)
Genre	Drama
Language	Infrequent, some blasphemy
Nudity	None
Sex	One brief implied scene and some sexual innuendo
Violence	None
Prejudice	None
Blasphemy
Drug abuse
Comments	None
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Ratings

Scale (Max)

South African Media

Cape Argus/The StarTheresa Smith

Die BurgerSonette Lombaard

Cape TimesTasha Robinson

The CitizenNatalie Bosman

Sunday TimesBarry Ronge

International Media

Chicago Sunday TimesRoger Ebert But is the movie about marriage, or sex, or murder, or the murder plot, or what? I'm not sure. It deals all those cards, and fate shuffles them. You may not like it if you insist on counting the deck after the game and coming up with 52. But if you get 51 and are amused by how the missing card was made to vanish, this may be a movie to your liking.

eye Weekly (Canada)Jason Anderson Intriguing, well-played but somewhat stilted in its attempt to evoke both Douglas Sirk’s sumptuous melodramas and Alfred Hitchcock’s more light-hearted thrillers, the result has the same air of retro-fetishism as Todd Haynes’ Far From Heaven and Peyton Reed’s Down With Love.

ReelViews (USA)James Berardinelli Married Life has enough plot twists and moments of high tension to keep the viewer engaged, but the main points of interest are the characters.

Metacritic.com28 critics

RottenTomatoes.com84 critics

RottenTomatoes.comTomatometer Witty but uneven.

Internet (IMDB)534 Netizens Not what it seems...

Average .. 60%

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