Linbeymusol Wonderful character development!

Matrixiole Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

Usamah Harvey The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Donald Seymour This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

bjarias ..sure, when you're that unhappy in your marriage start screwing the husband of your best friends... it'll work out in the end for sure... in all the dialogue of this intensely worded production, the final couple lines say it all... "... why would you do it... because I can"... add it all up and these four admirable actors have been in a host of films.. they are all without doubt among the best in their profession.. here's a film that according to numbers on the IMDb site barely made two million dollars (says it est cost to make to be three million).. yet there are many movies on the subject don't nearly do it a fraction as well as this one... ten, twenty years plus.. it won't loose a thing

Desertman84 We Don't Live Here Anymore is a film directed by John Curran. The movie stars Mark Ruffalo,Laura Dern,Naomi Watts and Peter Krause.It is based on the short stories We Don't Live Here Anymore and Adultery by Andre Dubus.Two marriages and four lives are brought to a crossroads by infidelity in this drama, based on a pair of short stories by author Andre Dubus. Jack (Ruffalo) is a college professor whose marriage to Terry (Dern) has been going through a rough patch. Beyond the tensions over Terry's failings as a mother and housekeeper, Jack is deeply infatuated with Edith (Watts), the beautiful wife of his best friend, Hank (Krause), a fellow professor and struggling poet. As it happens, Edith is also attracted to Jack, and they soon begin an affair that Edith is certain will soon be found out. Hank, meanwhile, is a man with a flexible attitude about his own fidelity, and he falls into a relationship with Terry. Before long, all four parties learn about the infidelity of their spouses and friends, with differing reactions; Terry becomes desperate to save her marriage, Jack decides he's in love with Edith, but neither couple is willing to divorce.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.One maybe fully absorbed by in the characters and their casually outrageous behavior.Also,it is a painful and powerful adaptation of two of Andre Dubus' beautifully frank stories.

Ali Catterall English professor Jack (Ruffalo) is married to slobby Terry (Dern) and carruying on with his friend's foxy wife Edith (Watts). Edith's husband, failed novelist Hank (Krause), is carrying on with Terry and, apparently, half of New England. It's a right old carry on.This one's been sold as a "provocative drama", but it's really just a souped-up soap opera with pretensions to artistic importance. There are few searing insights here, save for an aside to the kids that "Grown ups fight - especially married ones".Clunking symbolism abounds; from a tangled, primordial forest surrounding the college campus in which Jack and Edith play Adam and Eve ("Easy, sailor!" gasps Watts' Edith hilariously, while she's penetrated against a tree), to animal-themed wallpaper and Watts' hushed revelation that we're all little more than "gorillas in a zoo licking it off our hands". Tell, don't show, is their watchword.In mitigation, the ensemble cast are mostly sound, given the limitations of their material. Ruffalo's the model of a prematurely-induced mid-life crisis; whether deliberately picking fights to hasten a relationship's demise (a process applied with precisely the opposite aim in Edward Albee's sharper 1966 film Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?), or taking perverse delight in the ins-and-outs of Terry's adulterous tit-for-tat tryst, thus assuaging his own guilt.Dern's wronged housewife is a sight to behold, if not exactly savour, her face contorted almost beyond recognition into a mask of pain. Krause, too, impresses in his first major screen role as a self-absorbed pleasure-seeker and deliverer of platitudes who breezily informs Jack to "love all the people you can", utterly oblivious to the hurt he leaves behind.Yet these are all characters in search of a decent screenplay. "Looks like it's going to snow", murmurs Dern toward the maddeningly ambivalent climax, and it's typical of the script, and of its delivery, that you can practically see the actors sight reading off their portentous autocues.

Brigid O Sullivan (wisewebwoman) How many times has this theme been re-worked over and over. I was expecting something halfway decent from the ratings at IMDb and a pretty decent cast: Peter Krause, Mark Ruffalo, Laura Dern and Naomi Watts.The same beaten up old story of spouse swapping. Desperately unhappy people living together with no backstory as to how they got to be so dissatisfied with their lot. Cute backdrop of children. Ongoing and incessant shots of a train, so much so I kept waiting for one of the stars to splat off the front end. No such luck.Males are two selfish professors, women are housewives - I think, it is never clear.Laura Dern looks as if she should creak when she walks, all her bones are visible and her face keeps morphing into a rictus of death. Someone please feed her.Peter just about phoned his performance in and Mark bumbles along in an agony of guilt. Naomi is about the most alert of the bunch.The train keeps roaring through the level crossing. It is the most lively character in this whole sorry mess.2 out of 10.