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The Story of Us

1999

Rob Reiner

Michelle Pfeiffer, Bruce Willis, Tim Matheson, Rob Reiner ...

5.1

6,574

Drama Two complete opposites -- she's a perfectionist and he's anything but -- marry each other and live happily, but not necessarily ever after. After 15 years of marriage, writer Ben Jordan (Bruce Willis) and his crossword editor wife Katie (Michelle Pfeiffer) are finding that they don't love each other anymore. When their kids go away on summer vacation, they try a trial separation.

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	William Thomas Empire	"A downbeat tale of a 15-year marriage that's about as funny as major heart surgery without an anaesthetic (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Janet Maslin The New York Times	"[It] offers such an arthritic vision of middle-aged marriage that it feels like the first Jack Lemmon comedy made expressly for the baby boom generation."	NEG
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"Watching it is like taking a long trip in a small car with the Bickersons (…) Rating: ★ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Stephen Hunter The Washington Post	"Folks, I really feel that seeing this one for you is the movie critic's equivalent of jumping on the grenade to save your lives. Send me medals."	NEG
United States	Anthony Lane The New Yorker	"By the end, you feel drained and disaffected, as if you, too, had been living with the Jordans for fifteen years."	NEG
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"[It] turns into bogus drivel courtesy of the sitcom monster."	NEG

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