Scanialara You won't be disappointed!

Evengyny Thanks for the memories!

Kaelan Mccaffrey Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Cristal The movie really just wants to entertain people.

felinetitanic This movie was so boring -- it was painful to watch. I had to force myself to watch it to the end, I kept hoping it would get better considering the good actors in it, Pierce Brosnan especially since he is really handsome and sexy. The actors all seemed to do the best they could but it was just boring. It never got better. It wasn't funny, it wasn't dramatic. It was tedious at best. All good actors make a dud and this was it for all of them. There was no story really, it jumped around. it was all about adultery, cheating, the buddy trying to help out. The music was irritating. The story that was there was not clearly told and the talking over the scenes and the explanations did not help. In fact, that was irritating too.

rooprect The DVD package says this is "a sly & smart comedy", but I have to warn you, that's not exactly what you get. To me, a sly & smart comedy would be "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" or "Deathtrap" or even "Fargo". While this movie has the same bizarre, criminal elements and intelligent dialogue as the above, I never sensed any outright comedy.Still, it's well done & definitely worth a watch. Rather than a comedy, I would describe it more as a "drama of errors". The subject of murder is actually handled quite seriously although its casual nature might come across as odd (hence the humour?). There are no real laughs, but the strangeness of the story might elicit a few snorts, chortles, and possibly even a harrumph. But no guffaws.The acting is excellent, the script is good, the style & direction is smooth & suave, like the 1940s setting it depicts. Some might consider it slow, but I'd say that's a plus because it gives us time to digest the complex themes that are presented such as the incompatible definitions of 'love', the value of loyalty in marriage as well as friendship, and of course the morality of murder.Overall I liked this film. It's just the dag blasted ending that left me feeling cheated. I won't talk about it except to say that you should watch the alternate endings included on the DVD instead. In particular, Alternate #1 is closer to the book, and it gives us the thematic closure that the theatrical version omits. Alternate ending #1 also has a great piece of acting by Pierce Brosnan which, if it were in the actual movie, would've definitely made me bump up my rating by 1 or 2 stars."Married Life" is definitely worth the $2 rental fee. It deviates from the book on several key elements (such as the ending) and as a result doesn't quite wrap things up convincingly. But as far as movies go, it's entertaining, engaging and showcases some great acting talents.

zardoz-13 "Forty Shades of Blue" director Ira Sachs and "The Messenger" scenarist Oren Moverman adapt British author John Bingham's pulp thriller "Five Roundabouts to Heaven" and convert it into an ironic, above-average, soap operatic potboiler. Incidentally, Bingham worked in British Intelligence during World War II so he knew something about clandestine affairs. Nevertheless, this smoldering, claustrophobic period piece about infidelity, attempted homicide and reconciliation among married couples and their single friends rarely generates combustible passion. Chris Cooper of "Breach" delivers the best performance in the most complex role as a murderous husband cheating on his wife. The top-notch cast includes former James Bond Pierce Brosnan, the beautiful Rachel McAdams, Patricia Clarkson, and David Wenham in this concise, respectable 90-minute PG-13 rated opus. "Married Live" seems like it got the short shrift from Sony Pictures Classics. If you have any doubts, you should check out the DVD special features where no less than three alternate endings are available. Despite the sterling performances and the faithfully recreated period detail, this movie remains curiously aloof and uninvolving. Meantime, the filmmakers appear to suffer from schizophrenia. Neither Sachs nor Moverman could reach a decision about whether "Married Lives" was supposed to be a genre piece, social commentary, a turgid soaper, a black comedy or a film noir murder. Sachs and Moverman alternate these diverse narrative styles in such a helter-skelter fashion that "Married Lives" lacks cohesion.Sachs steeps us in period flavor with animated opening credits that capture the atmosphere of the 1950s. The story unfolds on September 5, 1949. As the narrator of "Married Life," Richard Langley (Pierce Brosnan of "Die Another Day") introduces us to the protagonist, Harry Allen (Chris Cooper), with whom he has been friends with since childhood. Harry is a well-heeled businessman in an anonymous metropolis in the far Northwest with an office whose picture window overlooks the sprawling city. He has been married to his wife Pat (Patricia Clarkson of "The Dead Pool") and their offspring has left home. Richard expresses a jaundiced view of marriage and describes it as "a mild kind of illness like the flu or chicken pox" from which he has maintained immunity. Of course, this immunity proves to be ephemeral. Anyway, Harry summons Richard to a diner so that he can meet his younger, bottle-blonde, sweetheart, Kay Nesbitt (radiate Rachel McAdams of "The Family Stone"), with whom he has been indulging himself. He confides in Richard that he plans to leave Pat because he wants to be "truly happy." This surprises Richard since he thought Harry and Pat had "a pretty good marriage." More to the point, Richard thinks of their marriage as "the most successful marriage" that he has ever known. Ironically, Harry wants to leave his wife because she sees marriage as purely physical, in other words, nothing but sex. Pat thinks Harry is a hopeless sentimentalist that he values romance above physical contact. Richard finds Harry's attitude amusing. "We all have to put up with somethings in life, Harry." He adds, "We can't have everything." Harry introduces Richard to Kay in the first scene in a restaurant. Caddish Richard, who indulges himself with a different woman every week, manages to seduce Kay away from Harry. Meanwhile, Harry plans to poison Pat because he cannot muster the courage to tell her about his extramarital affair. Moreover, Harry cannot live with the thought that Pat would suffer grievously after he leaves her. Ironically, Pat vocalizes the same sentiments about Harry when Richard catches John O'Brien (David Wenham of "300") at Harry and Pat's cabin in the woods. Indeed, poor, ignorant Harry has no clue that Pat has seduced another married man until later in the action. Harry has gone out and bought poison and he puts it in Pat's indigestion medicine. During a late-night ride from Kay's house, Harry picked up a hitchhiker Alvin Walters (Timothy Webber of "Terror Train") who tells our protagonist about how he has to poison a relative that was suffering unendurable agony. The poison finished her off quickly. Harry buys the poison and tries it out on their pet dog to determine its power. Richard almost lets the cat out of the bag to Pat about her husband's philandering. Later, Richard steals Kay away from Harry, and our protagonist scrambles home to save Pat from drinking her spiked medicine.Loquacious dialogue scenes constitute the bulk of the action in "Married Lives." In this respect, Richard has the choicest lines and one that gets repeated the most often underscores the irony of this domestic drama. Richard believes that you cannot derive happiness from the unhappiness of other people. This would involve a "burden of conscience" which—according to Harry—and later Kay—neither Harry nor Pat can do. If you enjoy subdued movies where the characters never fly off the handle and scream at each, then "Married Life" may entertain you. Unfortunately, all of this intrigue leads nowhere and "Married Life" winds up being cautionary rather than combustible.

Chrysanthepop Ira Sachs's dark comedy 'Married Life' is an intriguing little film set in the 40s/50s. Dealing with complex relations, it somewhat portrays the men as selfish and the female as hungry for love...but there are layers and it's not all so black and white. What's also interesting is the unusual cast that includes Pierce Brosnan, Patricia Clarkson, Chris Cooper and a refreshing Rachel McAdams. Though the pairing between McAdams and Brosnan is awkward, the chemistry works better between her and Cooper. Brosnan seems miscast but not to the extent that it ruins the film experience. McAdams is beautiful and pulls off her part quite well but it is Clarkson and Cooper who give the best performances. I'm also surprised that people have taken this film too seriously (to the point that they missed the humour which I thought was creatively done and hilarious). The element of drama is there but how could one miss the comedy? Sach's writing is superb and the direction is solid. I liked how the events unfold and Coopers's character's attempts to get what he wants and his surprise reaction towards the unexpected results. I find the title a little misleading. Yes, the film is about a 'dying' marriage and its complexities but the title is a little too vague and the film focuses on much more than marriage. The score gracefully brings the feel of the 40s. Overall, Sachs has made a clever unconventional black comedy in a period piece.