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The Lovers
2017 1h 34m R
Comedy
,
Drama
,
Romance
6.1
82%
42%
54%
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A husband and wife, each embroiled in a secret, extramarital affair, are sent reeling when they suddenly fall for the least likely person imaginable—one another—in this scalpel-sharp, deliciously grown-up comedy.
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Directed By
Azazel Jacobs
Written By
Azazel Jacobs
Studio
A24
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Cast of The Lovers
Debra Winger
Mary
Tracy Letts
Michael
Aidan Gillen
Robert
Melora Walters
Lucy
Tyler Ross
Joel
Jessica Sula
Erin
Lesley Fera
Susan
Janine Mitchell
Susan's friend
Vanessa Campbell
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The Lovers Reviews
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
Letts has some fine moments, but it's Winger who really brings the color to this movie, creating a woman filled with disappointment and passion and wit, taking a small-scale comedy of manners to a darker, richer place.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Calvin Wilson
Is romantic comedy dead? Not as long as the genre can accommodate a film as uniquely wonderful as "The Lovers."
Detroit News
Adam Graham
"The Lovers" keeps folding, changing and evolving, but stays to its central theme, exploring two uncomfortably real characters who can't get out of the way of each other or themselves.
Newsday
Rafer Guzman
Two fine performances anchor this half-funny, half-brutal story of a midlife marriage in crisis.
San Diego Reader
Matthew Lickona
It's tempting to read this as a younger generation's condemnation of its parents' me-first indulgence, and an affirmation of familial unity by an unblinking, accusatory - but not histrionic - look at its opposite.
Chicago Sun-Times
Richard Roeper
Just about every step of the way, the dialogue crackles and the performances are electric.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
With luck, by the end, you may hear what Jacobs does: the aching romantic movie imprisoned in each of us, desperate for release.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
We can read the character's history in Letts' face before we know the details. He's miserable, but like he's gotten used to misery. Misery is no big deal.
Arizona Republic
Bill Goodykoontz
No, this may not be the most original story in the world. But if it is somewhat familiar, it's also well told and exceptionally well-acted.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
Flustered, flirty and filled to the brim with compassion, "The Lovers" is charming, even when it's proving how hollow charm can be.
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
All four leads bring their A-game to this very adult, very real comedy of midlife crises. Winger is as good here as she's ever been, and Letts, an actor whose face you know but whose name you can never quite remember, is terrific.
Film School Rejects
Tomris Laffly
The Lovers is both a tragedy and a satirical comedy, with an absolutely provocative kicker.
Chicago Reader
Ben Sachs
The Lovers sustains a poignant tone that makes me choke up every time I watch it.
TIME Magazine
Stephanie Zacharek
The Lovers is buoyant and cheerfully flirty, though Jacobs never loses sight of the fact that loneliness that can strike both inside a marriage and outside it, and no human being is ever fully protected from suffering.
The Atlantic
David Sims
The Lovers, written and directed by Azazel Jacobs, is a strangely gripping movie mostly because of its aversion to over-explaining.
Tribune News Service
Katie Walsh
A cautionary tale that never passes judgment, an exploration of the way that love can be a many-splendored thing, with many people, some of them twice.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
There's really only one joke here -- the 50-ish spouses are every bit as confused, horny, and insecure as kids themselves -- but the two gifted leads play it so gracefully that it sustains the entire movie.
New Yorker
Richard Brody
The movie exhausts itself in its conception and sits inert on the screen like an undigested mass of script pages.
Hollywood Reporter
John DeFore
An unpredictably funny showcase for two very deserving actors.
New York Magazine/Vulture
David Edelstein
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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