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The Story of Us (1999) -- Bruce Willis and Michelle Pfieffer play a married couple who go through hard times in fifteen years of marriage.

Overview

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Director:
Rob Reiner
Writers (WGA):
Alan Zweibel (written by) &
Jessie Nelson (written by)
Contact:
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Release Date:
15 October 1999 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | Comedy | Romance more
Tagline:
Can a marriage survive 15 years of marriage?
Plot:
Ben and Katie Jordan are a married couple who go through hard times in fifteen years of marriage. full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
3 nominations more
NewsDesk:
(8 articles)
Tom Poston Dies
 (From WENN. 2 May 2007)

What Lies Beneath Rises Above
 (From Studio Briefing - Film News. 24 July 2000)

User Comments:
Sweet, sad and, um, that's it more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Bruce Willis ... Ben Jordan

Michelle Pfeiffer ... Katie Jordan
Colleen Rennison ... Erin Jordan at Ten

Jake Sandvig ... Josh Jordan at Twelve

Casey Boersma ... Josh Jordan at Two and a Half

Tim Matheson ... Marty

Rob Reiner ... Stan
Julie Hagerty ... Liza

Rita Wilson ... Rachel

Dylan Boersma ... Josh Jordan at Three

Ken Lerner ... Dr. Rifkin

Victor Raider-Wexler ... Dr. Hopkins
Albert Hague ... Dr. Siegler
Jayne Meadows ... Dot

Tom Poston ... Harry
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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated R for language and brief sexuality.
Runtime:
95 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English | Italian
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

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Trivia:
The last full length feature film of Red Buttons. more
Goofs:
Continuity: The Ford Expedition's rear window defroster appears and reappears during different driving scenes. more
Quotes:
Rachel: You were our Fred and Ethel Mertz!
Katie Jordan: Funny, we thought you were OUR Fred and Ethel Mertz.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Game K N B: (2006-11-29)" (2006) more
Soundtrack:
Classical Gas more

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7 out of 9 people found the following comment useful:-
Sweet, sad and, um, that's it, 26 October 2000
Author: IKeiller

This is a pretty film, often poignant, and a bit too close to the bone at times for my liking. Still, it carries you along quite nicely - making it's point that time grinds marriages down more often than affairs - and then sort of stops.

The leads were great: Willis was really good, Pfeiffer was fantastic (hey, i'm a fan, okay). But, the characters were tough to take. The self-pity was intercut with nice bits of comedy, but it felt like Reiner was cutting from a wake to a pratt-fall on occasions.

The final scenes, with Pfeiffer's frightening display of multi-emotional skill (at once excellent and utterly ghastly), betrayed the characters. Normality was implausibly resumed, and Pfeiffer came across as at fault for taking the whole film to get real, and Willis looked much relieved that she'd taken the sanity pill and he could quit trying to change himself.

And the end was a surprise. I thought there was going to be more: a deeper level of story. But it ended without a sense of closure.

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