The Story of Us

    The Story of Us
    1999

    Synopsis

    Ben and Katie Jordan are a married couple who go through hard times in fifteen years of marriage.

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    Cast

    • Bruce WillisBen Jordan
    • Michelle PfeifferKatie Jordan
    • Rob ReinerStan Kogen
    • Colleen RennisonErin Jordan (at Ten)
    • Jake SandvigJosh Jordan (at Twelve)
    • Julie HagertyLiza
    • Rita WilsonRachel Kogen
    • Paul ReiserDave
    • Red ButtonsArnie Jordan
    • Betty WhiteLillian Jordan

    Recommendations

    • 91

      Entertainment Weekly

      Pungent, funny, and surprisingly forceful.
    • 63

      New York Post

      Doesn't live up to the promise of its trailers.
    • 50

      Boston Globe

      Conspicuously short on the kind of texture that makes us feel we're watching real people living real lives.
    • 40

      Austin Chronicle

      Merry witticisms collide with empty clichés, leaving these characters with little trace of realism.
    • 40

      Time

      Mostly the movie is like the marriage: good casting, golden promise, yet somehow a grating ordeal.
    • 40

      TV Guide Magazine

      Slick and glib when it means to be profound yet ruefully witty; its rhythms are pure sitcom, complete with emotional rimshots.
    • 30

      Chicago Reader

      The script...and Rob Reiner's direction...bristle with phoniness.
    • 30

      L.A. Weekly

      The wet blanket of undigested autobiography lies all over Rob Reiner's excruciating new opus about a marriage winding down into terminal atrophy.

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