Rom-com starring Tracy Letts and Debra Winger as a long-married couple whose extra-marital affairs go awry when they unexpectedly fall...
Rom-com starring Tracy Letts and Debra Winger as a long-married couple whose extra-marital affairs go awry when they unexpectedly fall for each other again.
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82 %114 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
42 %2,529 reviewsAudience score rating
"With its waltz-like score and farcical symmetry, The Lovers is about as full as a movie can be with a premise so thin."
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Vulture
Vulture""The Lovers" is a comedy of Middle American doldrums that leaves you rooting for its characters instead of smirking at them."
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Variety
Variety"The movie exhausts itself in its conception and sits inert on the screen like an undigested mass of script pages."
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The New Yorker
The New Yorker"Writer-director Azazel Jacobs finds buoyant comedy and touching gravity in the ashes of a relationship. Above all, give yourself over Winger and Letts-they are perfection."
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Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone"Falling with a thud between two stools, it has neither the zip nor the zaniness of farce nor the airy vivacity of the best romantic comedies."
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New York Post
New York Post"Having a fling with a younger, hotter artiste type may be a midlife-crisis cliché, but it's one that writer-director Jacobs invests with real flesh, blood and feeling ..."
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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times"An unpredictably funny showcase for two very deserving actors."
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Hollywood Reporter
Hollywood ReporterThe Lovers (2017) | Details
- Runtime
- 97
- Genre
- Comedy
- Country of origin
- USA
