Synopsis
After her much older husband forces a move to a suburban retirement community, Pippa Lee engages in a period of reflection and finds herself heading toward a quiet nervous breakdown.
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Cast
- Robin WrightPippa Lee
- Alan ArkinHerb Lee
- Keanu ReevesChris Nadeau
- Julianne MooreKat
- Winona RyderSandra Dulles
- Mike BinderSam Shapiro
- Cornel WestDon Sexton
- Zoe KazanGrace Lee
- Maria BelloSuky Sarkissian
- Shirley KnightDot Nadeau
Recommendations
- 80
Empire
This is way more than it seems and manages to surprise and enchant throughout. - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
Unfortunately, writer-director Rebecca Miller's script tries so hard to be nervous and edgy that it ultimately succeeds only in making its viewers nervous and edgy. - 50
Variety
Feels as schizophrenic as its eponymous heroine. - 50
Entertainment Weekly
The mix is Lifetime soap–meets–Woody Allen smart-set comedy, with less humor and a genteel Connecticut setting. - 50
The A.V. Club
For a movie about the unpredictability of life, Pippa Lee plays it awfully safe. - 50
Los Angeles Times
Perched uncomfortably between flat whimsy and Lifetime movie crescendos, the coming-of-middle-age comic drama The Private Lives of Pippa Lee is rough going. - 42
Christian Science Monitor
By turns antic, frantic, and dull, "Pippa Lee" is unconvincing – emotionally, dramatically, filmically. - 40
Village Voice
In this densely populated ensemble piece, Reeves stands out as the only actor whose damaged character evokes sympathy and avoids cliché. Pippa, played by Wright Penn in near-permanent Stepford Wife mode, isn't much more than a vehicle for false epiphanies and forced rapprochements.
