I am a lover of Psychology and a loather of dysfunction. If you’ve ever been in a relationship that was dysfunctional with an emotionally distressed individual, then you would especially like this movie.
This film made the perils of marriage as funny as possible, while also revealing the initial root causes and demise of the sexual relationship between two adults.
My husband was somewhat disturbed by the film, and in total disbelief that there would be couples out there who do not engage in sexual activity for extremely long periods of time. Our personal theories on the subject are the same, in that if you are not having sex with your spouse…guess what people…you are not married. It’s not acceptable, it’s not normal, you’ve lost your mind and you have severely deep rooted issues. Period, that’s it. If you despise the person you are married to so much, that you do not wish to be next to them, every night, sleeping in the same bed and enjoying their company…then you shouldn’t be married. (Can you tell this is an issue I am passionate about?)
I can speak to the subject because I was married once before and it literally poisoned my soul for years as I tried to get to the root of the individual’s various problems, so I now have a “zero tolerance” policy regarding the relationships and people in my life. It is because of this, that I loved this movie.
I found Hope Springs to be fun, but real and even though we have no issues in the area of our connection…we never plan on it so we refer to this movie in the respect of never, ever wanting out relationship to get to such a severe point.
Tommy Lee Jones and Meryl Streep are both fabulous in their portrayals of the otherwise perfect married couple, and Steve Carrell plays the perfect marriage counselor.
Around 15 to 20% of couples claim to only be having sex 10 times per year. Experts define this and anything less to be a sexless marriage. So this film does accurately portray more marriages than you know. See this film!
Go forth and rent!
-SDS
-August 2, 2013
This movie was not marketed very well. The poster is horrendous and the art is undesirable and wouldn’t light a fire under most people to run to the theater and see the flick.
