Synopsis
A very gentle middle-aged man is married, but when he falls in love with another woman, he decides that to divorce his wife would humiliate her too much – so instead he decides to kill her.
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Cast
- Pierce BrosnanRichard Langley
- Chris CooperHarry Allen
- Patricia ClarksonPat Allen
- Rachel McAdamsKay Nesbitt
- David WenhamJohn O'Brien
- Annabel KershawMiss Jones
- Sheila PatersonMrs. Walsh
- David Richmond-PeckTom
- Erin BoyesBecky
- Elijah St. GermainLittle Charlie
Recommendations
- 80
New York Magazine (Vulture)
In Married Life, Ira Sachs aims a bit lower than Green but obliterates his target: The funny, the scary, the campy, the sad--they’re all splendidly of a piece. - 75
Entertainment Weekly
Married Life congratulates its audience on a sophisticated, humorous complicity in the obvious immorality of Harry's murder plans, as well as in Richard's own ungentlemanly designs on his pal's gorgeous girl. Every adult, the movie suggests, has got a secret. - 75
The A.V. Club
To a degree, the dynamic between Brosnan and Cooper resembles Aaron Eckhart and Matt Malloy's relationship from "In The Company Of Men." - 75
New York Daily News
It's a sly little fable with at least six very obvious homages to Alfred Hitchcock thrillers, and a dark little heart that happily hides under a double-breasted suit. - 70
Variety
The tone, casting and material form a less-than-perfect match in Married Life, a period domestic drama that never quite decides if it wants to be a credible marital study, a noirish meller or a sly comedy. - 70
The New York Times
This is the sort of gallows humor that Hitchcock relished drawing out in cruelly amusing cat-and-mouse games, not to be taken too seriously. The same is true of Married Life. The murder plot is not to be taken any more literally than the lethal games of “Mr. and Mrs. Smith.” - 70
Slate
Married Life is a tony, well-upholstered vehicle that glides smoothly toward its destination—but despite an unnecessary and overly sentimental coda, that destination isn't necessarily where you thought you were going all along. - 67
Christian Science Monitor
A faltering attempt at black comedy mixed with romantic melodrama, Married Life is always on the verge of being interesting but never quite gets there.
