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• Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B000SIQ328
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4.0 out of 5 stars Passive-Agressiveness When the Marriage Heads South, December 15, 2007

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KerrLines ""Movies,Music,Theatre"" (Baltimore,MD) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Secret Lives of Dentists (DVD)

Drs.David and Dana Hurst (Campbell Scott and Hope Davis respectively) are a successfully married couple of ten years; they have a thriving dental practice,three young and rambunctious girls,a home in Westchester,a cabin in up-state New York...and the total inability to communicate.To David, life is wonderful with the practice and the girls;Dana obviously is looking for more.Her passion is to be in the Westchester Community Opera production of the Verdi opera "Nabucco", something different and fun outside the home.Her ambitions and desires are not taken seriously.On the night of the performance,Dave heads backstage in order to give Dana a lucky rabbit's foot that she had left behind.There he spies her in the arms of another man;he sees the joy in her face,but only the back of the man's head.Is the embrace innocent or not? He lingers to look and then turns and leaves thus beginning days on end of repressed anger,resentment and non-confrontational passive-aggression.He begins to perseverate and invent all kinds of scenarios as to what could be happening with his wife.The crux of the problem here is what happens when we speculate about things and do not confront.David's alter-ego (Denis Leary) spurs him into all kinds of thoughts that might result in action.
This is an odd and quirky film.It is knee-deep in rich characters and the screenplay by Craig Lucas (LONGTIME COMPANION),based from the Jane Smiliey novella "The End of Grief" (she wrote "A Thousand Acres") is tight and riveting.This is not at all an action film,but rather a scrutinizing look at marriage when it heads South and no one wants to talk about it.That is when the imagination runs wild!Perfect for anyone who finds it difficult to confront issues head-on!
If your stomach cannot take certain things then BEWARE....there is a good
20 minutes of the entire family getting the flu and there is a lot of projectile vomiting! It is nasty!
The DVD contains the 30 minute short from The Sundance Channel's "Anatomy of a Scene" which takes a fascinating look at how editing,cinematography and acting in order to create the necessary results on film.Great purchase and intensely intimate piece of work directed Alan Rudolph.