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A 1940s-set drama where an adulterous man plots his wife's death instead of putting her through the humiliation of a divorce.A 1940s-set drama where an adulterous man plots his wife's death instead of putting her through the humiliation of a divorce.A 1940s-set drama where an adulterous man plots his wife's death instead of putting her through the humiliation of a divorce.
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- TriviaThe movie that Pierce Brosnan is watching in the movie theater is actually 1951's "Pandora and the Flying Dutchman" starring Ava Gardner and James Mason. There is a visible "Pandora and the Flying Dutchman" movie poster behind Pierce Brosnan as he makes a telephone call in the lobby of the theater. "Pandora and the Flying Dutchman" is in color whereas "East Side, West Side" was in black and white. "Pandora" was made two years after the setting of "Married Life" which starts in 1949.
- GoofsRichard Langley sees the film Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951) in a movie theater in 1949, two years before movie's release.
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Richard Langley: I'm not at all certain that one can build happiness upon the unhappiness of someone else
- SoundtracksI Can't Give You Anything But Love
Written by Dorothy Fields and Jimmy McHugh
Performed by Doris Day
Courtesy of Soundies. Inc.
By Arrangement with DePUGH MUSIC
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fine cast lifts under-cooked melodrama
Based on the 1953 novel "Five Roundabouts to Heaven" by John Bigham, "Married Life" - co-written by Oren Moverman and Ira Sachs, and directed by Sachs - is a throwback to all those florid film noir melodramas in which a bored husband (Chris Cooper) plots to do away with his wife (Patricia Clarkson) so he can start a life with his mistress, a leggy, blonde widow (Rachel McAdams) whose husband died in the war. Pierce Brosnan plays Cooper's best friend, a womanizing bachelor who, naturally, falls in love with the mistress, and who provides the overly-sincere, laughably self-conscious narration for the tale.
Though this kind of thing's been done much better in other films ("Double Indemnity," "The Postman Always Rings Twice" and "How to Murder Your Wife" spring immediately to mind), solid performances from an A-list cast, rich period detail (the movie is set in 1949), and an interesting subtext about marriage meaning different things to different people ultimately make it palatable.
Though this kind of thing's been done much better in other films ("Double Indemnity," "The Postman Always Rings Twice" and "How to Murder Your Wife" spring immediately to mind), solid performances from an A-list cast, rich period detail (the movie is set in 1949), and an interesting subtext about marriage meaning different things to different people ultimately make it palatable.
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- Budget
- $12,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $1,507,990
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $55,851
- Mar 9, 2008
- Gross worldwide
- $2,888,315
- Runtime1 hour 31 minutes
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- 1.85 : 1
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