5.4 Score

2008 • 1h 30min • PG-13 • Crime, Drama, Romance

Married Life

"Do you know what really goes on in the mind of the person with whom you sleep?"

A very gentle middle-aged man is married, but when he falls in love with another woman, he decides that to divorce his wife would humiliate her too much – so instead he decides to kill her.

IMDb 6.2

RT 54%

MC 65

Director

Ira Sachs

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Oren Moverman

John Bingham

Ira Sachs

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Pierce Brosnan

Richard Langley

Chris Cooper

Harry Allen

Patricia Clarkson

Pat Allen

Rachel McAdams

Kay Nesbitt

David Wenham

John O'Brien

Annabel Kershaw

Miss Jones

Sheila Paterson

Mrs. Walsh

David Richmond-Peck

Tom

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Rachel McAdams Kay Nesbitt

David Wenham John O'Brien

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Sheila Paterson Mrs. Walsh

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Erin Boyes Becky

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