We Don't Live Here Anymore

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 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.


College instructors in a small university town, Jack Linden (Mark Ruffalo of YOU CAN COUNT ON ME) and Hank Evans (Peter Krause of "Six Feet Under") have an easygoing friendship involving runs between classes and drinks at the pub after work. Jack’s wife Terry (Laura Dern of CITIZEN RUTH and RAMBLING ROSE ) is best friends with Hank’s Edith (Naomi Watts of MULHOLLAND DRIVE and THE RING), and the four have dinner parties where, once the kids have gone to bed, the wine flows freely and the record collection is in constant rotation. But the Evanses and the Lindens are not the happy couples they appear to be. For Jack and Terry, the everyday tribulations of being parents of young children trying to make ends meet have taken their toll on the once passionate couple. And Hank, a self-absorbed writer at heart, is fond of his daughter and family life, but not all that interested in monogamy, it turns out. Trying to find a way to make her marriage work under the new circumstances, Edith turns to Jack for comfort. What begins as a playfully lascivious affair erupts into a season of infidelity, leaving all four to sift through the emotional wreckage to find their way home.


  "The murk and mystery of marriage, adultery and friendship have seldom been illuminated with such harsh precision."
-- A.O. Scott, NEW YORK TIMES


"Spellbinding stuff -- in part because of its vivid characterizations." -- J. Hoberman, VILLAGE VOICE


 ". . . literate, erotic, brutally funny and touched by brilliance in its quartet of live-wire performances." -- Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE


  "[A] smart insight into modern-day relationships." -- Duane Byrge, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER


  "Affecting and sincere." -- Carina Chocano, LOS ANGELES TIMES


  "At times harrowing to watch, yet it's also wry and delicate and absorbing. It's infused with the messy excitement of imperfect passion."
-- Owen Gleiberman, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY


  "Director John Curran draws skillfully nuanced performances from the four leads, who have rarely been better." -- Lou Lumenick, NEW YORK POST


  "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." -- Claudia Puig, USA TODAY