Richard and Rachel, a couple in the throes of infertility, try to maintain their marriage as they descend deeper and deeper into the insular world of assisted reproduction and domestic adoption.
Acting
Hahn and Giamatti's kitchen fight should be studied in acting schools.
Writing
Jenkins wrote this between her own IVF cycles. The exhaustion is real.
Direction
Medical scenes shot like heist films, bodies as compromised territory.
Director
Tamara Jenkins
Paul Giamatti
Richard Grimes
Kathryn Hahn
Rachel Biegler
Kayli Carter
Sadie Barrett
Molly Shannon
Cynthia Grimes
John Carroll Lynch
Charlie Grimes
Desmin Borges
Sam
Denis O'Hare
Dr. Dordick
Siobhan Fallon Hogan
Beth
Emily Robinson
Charlotte Grimes
Tracee Chimo
Caroline
Francesca Root-Dodson
Fiona
Samantha Buck
Psychologist
Kerry Flanagan
Receptionist
Danny Deferrari
Jonathan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Jenkins and her husband went through nine years of fertility treatments; she started writing this script during her second round of IVF.
The 'private life' of the title ironically refers to how infertility invades every private moment—sex becomes medical, marriage becomes project management.
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