Wednesday 26 September 2012

Hope Springs

Cast
Meryl Streep
Tommy Lee Jones
Steve Carell
Screenwriter
Vanessa Taylor
Director
David Frankel
Running Time
100 minutes

Kay and Arnold are a devoted couple, but decades of marriage have left Kay wanting to spice things up and reconnect with her husband. When she hears of a renowned couple's specialist in the small town of Great Hope Springs, she attempts to persuade her skeptical husband, a steadfast man of routine, to get on a plane for a week of marriage therapy. Just convincing the stubborn Arnold to go on the retreat is hard enough – the real challenge for both of them comes as they shed their bedroom hang-ups and try to re-ignite the spark that caused them to fall for each other in the first place. (Columbia Pictures)

Funny and probably truthful but I didn't emotionally connect with the characters which made it hard to care what happened to them.