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 |
Ben and Katie married fifteen years ago and gifted with two children. They stay together but their hearts had separated long back. After the kids are send to summer camp both start living separately and eventually preparing to break news of their separation to the kids. But being alone in each one's own world makes them to think about the other. When the D-day comes Katie and Ben stick together for the good of their children. Written by Thejus Joseph Jose
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.