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The Lovers

  • Rated R
  • 1hr 37m
  •  (4)
  • 76

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Movie Info & Cast

Release Date:

May 5, 2017

Runtime:

1hr 37m

Synopsis

Debra Winger and Tracy Letts play a long-married, dispassionate couple who are both in the midst of serious affairs. But on the brink of calling it quits, a spark between them suddenly reignites, leading them into an impulsive romance.

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movie just ok..didn't pull me in

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Metacritic

76
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Based on 31 Critics
6.2

USER SCORE (32)

Generally favorable reviews based on 32 Reviews
58
May 5, 2017

Director Azazel Jacobs knows what he has in Winger, but her intensity is too much for this goofy grab bag of a movie.

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Metacritic review by Peter Rainer
Peter Rainer
Christian Science Monitor
88
May 5, 2017

A meandering but altogether mesmerizing film from writer-director Azazel Jacobs that finds buoyant comedy and touching gravity in the ashes of a relationship.

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Metacritic review by Peter Travers
Peter Travers
Rolling Stone
75
May 3, 2017

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.

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Metacritic review by Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
The A.V. Club
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