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Mood:
- SentimentalTouchingBittersweetCleverHumorousSincereBiting
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Plot:
- Crumbling MarriageIntrospectionCouple RelationsHopesLove and RomanceMind and SoulUnfulfillmentCouples more...
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Genres:
- ComedyDramaRomance
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Time/Period:
- 20th Century80s90s
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Audience:
- Date Night
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Humor:
- Irreverent Humor
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Style:
- Talky
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Attitudes:
- Semi SeriousRealistic
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The Story of Us, 1999
English, Italian
USA
Profile of The Story of Us
The mood of The Story of Us is bittersweet, sentimental, and touching. The plot centers around a crumbling marriage, introspection, and themes of unfulfillment. It features irreverent humor. The Story of Us is a drama, comedy, and romance movie. Stylistically, it is talky. In approach, it is realistic. The Story of Us happens in the 1980s and in the 1990s. It is especially suggested for a date night.
Summary of The Story of Us
Told in an engaging collage of direct camera confessionals, flashbacks, roundtable discussions, and montages, Rob Reiner's The Story of Us, a sweet romantic comedy featuring solid performances by Bruce Willis and Michelle Pfeiffer, examines the difficulty of preserving marriage in America and the dual lives married couples often must endure. The "us" are Ben and Katie Jordan (Willis and Pfeiffer), a professional, and by all appearances happily married, suburban couple with two well-adjusted children, Erin and Josh; the "story," however, is that their marriage is actually crumbling at an alarming rate, a truth they endeavor to hide from their loving kids. Luckily, they can postpone the admission of dissolution because of the children's departure to summer camp, with the possibility that things will work out in the ensuing months. However, as time passes, tempers flare, Ben moves out, Katie meets a charming divorcé at a cooking class, and, as the inevitable return of Erin and Josh closes to a week, there is no apparent hope of resolution. Will the two be forced to present their kids with an awful fact of life, or can they rediscover their passion for each other and renew their love?
Details
| Language: | English, Italian |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 13 October 1999 |
| Runtime: | 95 min |
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as Ben Jordan
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Critics Reviews
USA Today
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- by: Susan Wloszczyna
Entertainment Weekly
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- by: Owen Gleiberman
Users Reviews
- 16.August.2008
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- by: Noa
- Noa rated this movie7/10Good
