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    Married Life
    a.k.a. Marriage Director: Ira Sachs Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Chris Cooper, Rachel McAdams, Patricia Clarkson

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    • DVD Release Date: 09/02/2008
    • Original Release: 2007
    • Rating: Rated PG13
    • Sales Rank: 19,193

    Viewer Rating: (2 ratings)

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    Closed Caption; ; Commentary with Director Ira Sachs; Three alternate endings

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    Disc #1 -- Married Life
    1. Chapter 1 [2:14]
    2. Chapter 2 [2:59]
    3. Chapter 3 [3:10]
    4. Chapter 4 [1:15]
    5. Chapter 5 [1:07]
    6. Chapter 6 [2:23]
    7. Chapter 7 [:35]
    8. Chapter 8 [1:06]
    9. Chapter 9 [3:14]
    10. Chapter 10 [3:29]
    11. Chapter 11 [2:23]
    12. Chapter 12 [2:18]
    13. Chapter 13 [5:26]
    14. Chapter 14 [4:15]
    15. Chapter 15 [4:49]
    16. Chapter 16 [1:08]
    17. Chapter 17 [2:36]
    18. Chapter 18 [2:01]
    19. Chapter 19 [3:06]
    20. Chapter 20 [6:09]
    21. Chapter 21 [2:15]
    22. Chapter 22 [4:45]
    23. Chapter 23 [6:49]
    24. Chapter 24 [3:05]
    25. Chapter 25 [2:23]
    26. Chapter 26 [5:42]
    27. Chapter 27 [1:41]
    28. Chapter 28 [7:59]

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    After entering into a passionate affair with a much younger woman, an unhappily married man resorts to murder as a means of sparing his frigid wife the humiliation of divorce in director Ira Sachs' suspenseful film noir. Set in the 1940s, Marriage tells the tale of Harry (Chris Cooper) -- a man whose faithful but emotionally distant wife (Patricia Clarkson) has become all but impossible to love. Smitten by the beautiful Kay (Rachel McAdams) but ultra-sensitive to the shame associated with divorce, Harry opts to poison his wife as a means of allowing the marriage to end with her pride still intact. Harry's scheme soon goes horribly awry, however, when after revealing the plan to his best friend, Richard (Pierce Brosnan), Richard too falls in love with the ethereal young beauty and sets into motion a cunning plan all his own. A serpentine tale of murderous deception, Marriage was co-scripted by director Sachs and screenwriter Oren Moverman. Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

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    September 03, 2008: MARRIED LIFE will probably fare better in the DVD format where this at times disturbing view of marital status can be viewed in private rather than in the company of the throngs that resemble the characters depicted in this fine little film. Based on the novel 'Five Roundabouts to Heaven' by John Bingham and well adapted to the screen by Oren Moverman and director Ira Sachs, MARRIED LIFE is a dissection of the hallowed state of matrimony, and one that shows the creases and little holes that make so many marriages fail. it is set in the late 1940s, likely with the attempt to give some 'distance' to the plot, but the messages remain in comparing the tale to contemporary times. Narrated by perennial playboy bachelor Richard Langley (Pierce Brosnan), we are introduced to Harry Allen (Chris Cooper) who apparently has it all - big house, great job, sex-driven wife Pat (Patricia Clarkson), country home - but Harry has fallen in love with military widow Kay Nesbitt (Rachel McAdams). Harry respects and still 'loves' Pat, but finds in Kay the love he has felt missing from his marriage. He confides his desire to leave Pat to Richard who is surprised - until Richard meets the beautiful Kay. Not wanting to hurt Pat, Harry decides the only solution is to murder Pat so that he can then marry Kay: he researches poisons and buys a potion that he plans to place in Pat's ever-present 'digestive medicine' bottle. Harry and Kay continue their secret assignations in both Kay's home and Harry's nearby country home, but things begin to muddle as Richard falls for Kay, and Kay's attention shifts to Richard, and the devoted Pat is hiding her secret lover Tom (David Richmond-Peck). As the twists and turns surface, everything unwinds and the ending of the story comes as a surprise to everyone! The quartet of actors - Clarkson, Cooper, Brosnan, and McAdams - serve the story well and the flavor of the 1940s starts with superb opening credit images and carries through with the fine decors and attention to detail that don't seem to miss a beat in recreating the period. This is a difficult film to classify - it has comedy inherent in the absurdity of portions of the plot, it has drama in the core of the tale, and it has mystery as the surprises keep surfacing. The overall effect will be different for every viewer, depending on where in the marriage spectrum each viewer stands! Grady Harp