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Sanford Rosenberg, President, Media
Research
Associates, Partner/co-founder of Front Street Productions, is very
pleased to announce the Warner Independent Pictures theatrical release
of Front Street's new film, opening August 13, 2004 in New York and Los
Angeles, in 100 cities on August 20.
WE DON'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE
Ordinary
Lives. Extraordinary Emotions.
WINNER of the WALDO SALT SCREENWRITING Award (Sundance Film Festival
2004)
 Starring: Mark Ruffalo, Peter Krause, Naomi Watts and Laura Dern
Based on two works by Andre Dubus, WE DON'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE
is a sexy and provocative drama about married life and its discontents.
Keenly observed, the film charts the amorous affair of a married man
with his best friend's wife and how their liaison upsets the delicate
balance of their relationships, culminating in a fling between their
spouses. Unfolding from four alternating viewpoints, the story captures
the paradoxical actions of loving parents determined to save marriages
they secretly long to escape, as the couples struggle through their
emotional and sexual entanglement. With a wry, knowing humor, WE
DON'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE reveals the perverse logic of infidelity --
and the complicity, denial and occasional cruelty that can accompany it.
In the vivid domestic drama We Don't Live Here Anymore, which is easily the best American movie so
far this year, Dern gives an enormous, fully emotional
performance, but she never ceases to play her character, a housewife in
a troubled marriage-- she never becomes a diva
-New Yorker, David Denby,
8/30/2004
We Don't Live Here Anymore is
spellbinding stuff-in part because
of its vivid characterizations. But while Dern's gaunt, smoldering
intensity is oddly complemented by Krause's opaque diffidence, Ruffalo
and Watts are the stellar couple. Ruffalo's Jack-at once furtive,
funny, hapless yet smarmy-is his most achieved and abject character to
date, while Watts's Edith projects a fragility that might be made of
tempered steel.
-Village Voice, J. Hoberman, 8/11/2004
Based on two short stories by Andre Dubus (In the Bedroom), We
Don't Live Here Anymore
-- astutely directed by John Curran, from an artful screenplay by Larry
Gross -- sets off sexual fireworks that leave scorched earth. This is Who's
Afraid of Virginia Woolf? for disaffected young marrieds.
-Rolling Stone, Peter Travers, 8/5/2004
It insists that there is no end to human weakness, and not much cure
for it either. That's pretty strong stuff.
-New York Times, A.O. Scott, 8/13/2004
We Don't Live Here Anymore is a revelation. One
rarely sees
American-made movies that are so unafraid to explore emotional cruelty
and portray the consequences without positing easy answers or attaching
happy endings.
-USA Today, Claudia Puig, 8/12/2004
The great accomplishment of the new film We Don't Live Here Anymore
is that it so freshly and forcefully takes the temperature of such
treacheries and heroics.
-LA Weekly, F.X. Feeney, 8/13/2004
Virtually no one would deny that adultery is a form of betrayal, but
only rarely is it presented on screen as more than that. It's
occasionally allowed to be sexy, usually muffled by guilt. What films
almost never have the daring or sophistication to show is that adultery
can be less a violation of life than a desperate, deeply urgent
expression of it. We Don't Live Here Anymore, a wrenchingly intimate
drama of marital infidelity, is the kind of movie for, and about,
grown-ups that people used to talk about wanting to see but that just
about no one makes anymore.
-Entertainment Weekly, Owen Gleiberman, 8/11/2004
A sense of unease, of incompleteness, is, I
think, the
appropriate response to this movie. Instead of trying to fill in the
blanks, Curran and Gross leave things open and ambiguous. Just like
life.
-New York Metro, Peter Rainer, 8/13/2004
A tale of emotional treachery and attempted recoupment among civilized
folk in a university environment, the film trades in such fundamental
conflicts as the desire to keep one's family together versus the lure
of freedom, and respecting a close friend's marriage versus giving in
to mutual lust for his or her partner.
-Variety, 1/22/2004
In this smart insight into modern-day relationships, screenwriter Larry
Gross has distilled from two works by author Andre Dubus, a vexing
portrait of the power struggles within generally good marriages.
Through his deft dissection of the fissures in each marriage, Gross
illuminates both the hidden needs of these four "good" people as well
as their selfish desires. In short, there is no one to blame rather, we
see how each character struggles to maintain their relationship but how
each character subverts the marriage.
-Hollywood Reporter, 1/26/2004
http://www.frontstreetprods.com/
A
Warner Independent Pictures release of a Renaissance Films presentation
of a Front Street Pictures presentation. Produced by Harvey Kahn, Naomi
Watts, Jonas Goodman. Executive producers, Ruth Epstein, Mark Ruffalo,
Larry Gross. Co-producers, Ken Lawson, Robert Lee, Sanford Rosenberg.
Directed by John Curran. Screenplay, Larry Gross, based on the short
stories "We Don't Live Here Anymore" and "Adultery" by Andre Dubus.
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