The separation of a long married couple goes awry when they fall for each other again.
Acting
Debra Winger and Tracy Letts are devastatingly human.
Direction
Jacobs finds poetry in fluorescent-lit bedrooms.
Writing
The affair-within-an-affair structure is quietly ingenious.
Director
Azazel Jacobs
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Debra Winger famously took a six-year hiatus from Hollywood; this was her welcome-back vehicle, and she reportedly chose it because the script terrified her.
The film deliberately echoes 1970s European marital dramas like 'Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice,' but replaces swinging liberation with resigned Midwestern desperation. Jacobs wanted viewers to feel like they're eavesdropping on their own parents.
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