Hope Springs
"Sometimes to keep the magic, you need to learn a few tricks."
After thirty years of marriage, a middle-aged couple attends an intense, week-long counseling session to work on their relationship.
"Sometimes to keep the magic, you need to learn a few tricks."
After thirty years of marriage, a middle-aged couple attends an intense, week-long counseling session to work on their relationship.
Meryl Streep
Kay
Tommy Lee Jones
Arnold Soames
Steve Carell
Dr. Bernie Feld
Jean Smart
Eileen, Kay's Friend
Marin Ireland
Molly, Their Daughter
Ben Rappaport
Brad, Their Son
Brett Rice
Vince, Arnold's Friend
Becky Ann Baker
Cora, The Waitress
Elisabeth Shue
Karen, The Bartender
After thirty years of marriage, a middle-aged couple attends an intense, week-long counseling session to work on their relationship.
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A car accident and shifting affections test the bond between a married couple.
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The son of a courtesan retreats into a fantasy world after being forced to end his relationship with the older woman who educated him in the ways of love.
Jerry Falk, an aspiring writer in New York, falls in love at first sight with a free-spirited young woman named Amanda. He has heard the phrase that life is like "anything else," but soon he finds that life with the unpredictable Amanda isn't like anything else at all.
Celeste and Jesse met in high school and got married young. They laugh at the same jokes and finish each other’s sentences. They are forever linked in their friends’ minds as the perfect couple – she, a high-powered businesswoman and budding novelist; he, a free spirit who keeps things from getting boring. Their only problem is that they have decided to get divorced. Can their perfect relationship withstand this minor setback?
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A terminally ill man falls in love with a woman who has a secret that threatens their time spent together.
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Rose Morgan, who still lives with her mother, is a professor of Romantic Literature who desperately longs for passion in her life. Gregory Larkin, a mathematics professor, has been burned by passionate relationships and longs for a sexless union based on friendship and respect.