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Cast
- Debra WingerMary
- Tracy LettsMichael
- Aidan GillenRobert
- Melora WaltersLucy
- Tyler RossJoel
- Jessica SulaErin
- Lesley FeraSusan
- Janine MitchellSusan's friend
- Vanessa CampbellDance Receptionist
- Eric SatterbergJohn
Recommendations
- 91
The Playlist
The characters in The Lovers and the problems they face and struggle with feel entirely authentic, as does the magnetic chemistry between the leads. - 85
TheWrap
This film is a real pleasure and surprise because it sees old emotions as things that can be replenished and renewed if you are open and not too rigid about the boundaries of your relationships with others. - 83
IndieWire
The movie deals less with awkwardness of this comedic scenario than the emotions it creates for its central duo, and the psychological struggle when words can only go so far. - 80
The Guardian
Rather like its central relationship, the film is messy and flawed yet painfully familiar. - 80
Variety
The Lovers is a comedy of Middle American doldrums that leaves you rooting for its characters instead of smirking at them. - 80
Village Voice
Jacobs lets casually observed details and offhand humor advance the story. There are no grand pronouncements in The Lovers, which smartly communicates its ideas about relationships during its long stretches of silence. - 75
The A.V. Club
Azazel Jacobs’ The Lovers is set in the sort of unremarkable, average, suburban America that is rarely depicted in American movies in anything but a negative light, usually as a place where dreams go to die. So one of the unexpected virtues of this small, thoughtful film is how it resists treating these surroundings as soul-crushing or as a symbol of the failure of middle-class mores. - 70
Screen Daily
The Lovers is shrewd, even if it’s not altogether satisfying.
