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We Don't Live Here Anymore (2004)
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Movie Review by Tony 
April 4th, 2006
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"We Don't Live Here Anymore" stars Mark Ruffalo, Laura Dern, Peter Krause, and Naomi Watts as two married couples. The women are stay at home mom's with the children. The husbands are college professors. Sounds good on the surface right? All should be well. That is where you could be very, very wrong.
Mark Ruffalo and Naomi Watts in Warner Independent Pictures' We Don't Live Here Anymore
Jack (Ruffalo) and Edith (Watts) are secret lovers. The real marriages are Dern (Terry) and Jack and Hank (Krause) and Edith. Everything seems fine but behind closed doors they are messed up beyond belief.
Laura Dern and Naomi Watts in Warner Independent Pictures' We Don't Live Here Anymore
The performances are good, the casting is good, the speech is strong, yet this movie fails to really engage or get you to care. The characters are miserable and there is zero hope for them. This movie is very , very similar to "Closer". But what sets Closer apart was the characters had some likable traits and qualities about them. In "We Don't Live Here Anymore", they have none. They are messed up and will stay messed up long after the movie is over.
You don't really understand their actions and they are never really explained. They have no motive or theory. They just behave in selfish ways simply because they can. All of them have kids, and a nice house, and never really look at the big picture. Why are they unhappy? What causes this? Never really addressed in this movie.
The characters performing the acts are not as interesting and smart as they think they are. For being college professors, the males are rather boring and depth less.
Does not have the lasting efforts of "Closer". We are not seeing anything that has not been seen or done before and better with a better script. It is a shame so many talented actors are wasted in a movie with no rhyme or reason and it is shallow and at times boring.
Peter Krause in Warner Independent Pictures' We Don't Live Here Anymore
Are we supposed to feel sorry for them? Hate them? Care for them? The movie talks, talks loud, and talks well, but what is it talking about? What is it addressing? What is it commenting on? It runs around in circles and runs out of gas.
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