- This felt unnecessarily long. I’m sure this was in part because they wanted to extend the awkwardness of several therapy scenes, but editing is still your friend.
- Tommy Lee Jones’ face is slowly turning into Walter Matthau.
- I did actually really like Meryl Streep in this as a deeply repressed and borderline emotionally abused woman learning to take a stand. I can’t remember the last time she played a character this low-key.
- I’m not sure that we’re supposed to interpret Kay’s and Arnold’s relationship to be as dysfunctional as it is; the movie explicitly states that they’re not a couple who shouldn’t have got married, just that they have problems, blah blah blah. But Kay nails it on the head when she calls Arnold a bully and he has other weird, controlling tendencies as well; when Kay said she paid for their therapy session out of some type of savings account we don’t have in Canada, his first question is how on earth she got access to the money. That’s usually a warning sign; financial control to the point where you don’t have access to your own money is not a good thing. But maybe that’s just me!
- I did sort of want them to get divorced at the end. Is that terrible?
- If you ever wanted to see Meryl Streep masturbate, this is the film for you.
- Steve Carrell sports a variety of heavily textured (possibly knitted?) ties in multiple colours.
- The mom from Freaks and Geeks occasionally shows up playing a waitress every once in a while in various things, as she did here.
- This was pretty bland and generally inoffensive.
- Meryl Streep really could play Batman with absolutely no trouble. Someone make that happen.
Categories: 2 Stars