The show kinda started OK even though i didn't like him much. I got to where i liked him after 20 minutes or so. If the show would have ended where both of them split up i could live with that. But, the ending where he calls her is way way way over the top for me. One reviewer said 'there is no feeling there'. I hadn't seen the very end when i read that review and i thought the reviewer was wrong that there was a tiny bit of feeling. But, the ending made the whole movie ridiculous and void of feeling , schizophrenic. Two sociopaths or something. Non humans. Or, at least, sad folks who live in an emotional vacant life. The son and his girl friend were the only ones with a sense of reality. I loved the way the son and his girl friend slipped out the door when Dad was playing the piano. The Dad , i saw , as in the middle of such a detachment from reality and delusional as he sang and played. Misguided. Or, no guidance at all. One reviewer mentioned how her and her 'lover' thought they'd identify because they just went through a similar thing. I guess a break up and make up. I loved the way the son just left probably thinking 'i got to get out of here wow bozoland, bonker city let me out'. I imagined them just thinking how comical the whole thing is with their parents and how sad, though. But, the main criticism or complaint is NO FEELING. I FELT JUST ABOUT NOTHING. THERE WERE ACTIONS GOING ON BUT NONE OF IT HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH 'REALITY' OR 'WHOLENESS' OR MAKING ANY SENSE. THE plot seemed like it could go somewhere but would keep turning to nowhere. None it would ever happen. People aren't that out there. Feelingless characters pretending to be real. The movie didn't do anything for me but help me write this. I won't say it's a waste of time in the sense i keep getting reminded there are a lot of movies i think are just ridiculous when i think they won't be before i watch them. There are only a few actors and directors that i know, before hand, i will like. Very few. e.g I know i'll like a movie with Christian Bale in it or Chastain or Blanchett or Brad Pitt but there aren't a whole lot. Anyhow, lousy show.

Debra Winger will forever be Wonder Girl to me, but of course she has assembled a comprehensive body of work since that early role back in the 1970s. One of her latest projects is 'The Lovers', in which she plays Mary, the distaff half of a middle-aged couple whose marriage seems to be on its last legs. Mary and her husband Michael (Tracy Letts) are perfectly civil to each other, but both are having affairs with younger people. A visit by their college student son Joel (Tyler Ross) seems as if it will provide the catalyst for a split, but then the unexpected happens: Mary and Michael fall back in love...Winger does a lot of 'face acting' in this: much posing of the eyebrows. Unfortunately this makes it seem more like she is puzzling over a particularly difficult crossword clue than mourning the break-up of her decades-old marriage. Letts is more impressive, even if, every time I looked at him, I thought of John Lithgow. As Joel, Ross merely has to say "fuck" a lot. (Also, in one scene he punches through a wall, but his punch sounded more like a gentle love-tap - that house must be made of cardboard!)While it is fitting - in the portrayal of a couple who have been together for decades - to say a lot without words, there are times when this film takes the concept too far: for instance, it is unclear just how much Mary and Michael know about each other's 'secret' lives; certainly when confronted by Michael's 'other woman' Mary is upset, but does not seem surprised. The eventual decision to split is also arrived at with hardly any discussion - I actually thought the showing I attended at the 2017 London Film Festival had left out a couple of scenes! Nonetheless, the film is good fun, was enjoyable to watch once and I shall probably watch it again.

It is one of those movies that was surprisingly good. Very little dialogue, yet Winger and Letts manage to say a lot with just their expressions. The chemistry of these two actors is the glue that holds this movie. It is not flashy, it is no Officer and gentlemen, however, what it is a subtle character study of two damaged characters worn down by the constitution of marriage. Aiden Gillen is pretty much playing Little finger here. The last act is pretty brilliant when we are introduced tot he couple's son. Also, it has one of those smart endings that will make people think and debate. I hope WInger and Letts at least get a golden globe nod if they don't get and Oscar nod.

The critics loved this movie, and the premise seemed funny...a married couple who are both cheating on each other, rekindle their romance, and "cheat" on their lovers! Unfortunately, none of the promise of this plot was ever realized. The first half hour is excruciatingly slow, with hardly anything at all happening. Towards the end, when their adult child and his girlfriend come to visit them, it's not bad. But then everything falls apart, and the cheating husband gets on the house piano, and sings a song about love. Really. Tracy Letts, who I used to like in Homeland, is way out of his league in this movie. It's interesting to see Debra Winger after all these years, but she does nothing to make this role "her own." Dozens of actresses her age could have played that part, and we wouldn't have seen any difference. All in all, you'd be wise to skip this one. I sure wish I did.