We Don't Live Here Anymore (DVD)

Let's start off by saying that this is not a film you will want to watch in order to lift your spirits, instead this a look at the gritty side of marriages, troubled marriages to be exact. The side where things just aren't going right and the communication barriers are so thick your view of your spouse is so obscured you don't know where to turn.

We Don't Live Here Anymore is an exercise in brilliant acting and is certainly worth a one time viewing, but multiple viewings are pretty much out of the question unless you are so happy with your life you need someone or something to bring you crashing back down to the real world.

This film centers around two couples, Jack and Terry (Ruffalo and Dern) and Hank and Edith (Krause and Watts) and with one marriage there seems nowhere to go but down and in the other the obvious glue keeping it together is an underlying love for one another and a major love for their children.

Pushing love aside adultery soon rears its ugly head, and it is left in the air just how long the side romances will last and if they will have a lasting effect on the marriages involved.

This DVD comes with no special features unless you count the theatrical trailer as special, which also just adds to the fact that this is a movie to rent and watch once and ignore the buy option. Unlike last year's gritty and depressing film 21 Grams this film offers nothing more than a depressing story that not even the great acting involved could urge me to watch it again.