The Lovers (2017)

To me, this movie is perfection.

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

This movie was much the same as watching someone paint a house.It was such a disappointment.So many periods of just nothing -I was anticipating seeing Debra Winger on screen again but this role was just beneath her!

The one good thing about this movie is that is was consistent from start to finish. The problem, of course, is that it was consistently flat the whole way through. It's just a few characters doing stuff without any conversations or other clues as to why they are behaving like they are. I could have easily turned it off at any point and not cared about how it ended. As it was, I fast forwarded through 20 to 30 minutes in the middle to get to the end. Not sure what the director was going for here. Not funny, not dramatic; just blah.

Mary (Debra Winger) and Michael (Tracy Letts) are in a troubled marriage. They are trying to keep up appearance before the visit of their son and his girlfriend. Mary is having an affair with Robert (Aidan Gillen) and Michael with Lucy (Melora Walters). There may still be something in their marriage.It's great to have Debra Winger back as a big screen lead. She still has flashes of the old fire. The love lives are muddled which makes them less compelling for me. I couldn't hold on to their marriage or wonder if I can root for its dissolution. The affair partners don't have enough screen time. I also wonder if concentrating on one lead would heighten the emotional impact. While it's nice to have the visit, the effects are not long lasting.

Being of the older generation, I thought I would like this film more than I did.Debra Winger and Tracy Letts are a married couple with each having an affair and continually postponing telling the other that they're leaving. Thus, they're also stringing along their lovers being unable to fully commit one way or the other. Somehow, this rekindles Winger and Letts' passion for each other sexually.The movie is very slow-paced, has many awkward moments, but it does contain some deadpan humor that works at times. The film's characters are mostly unlikable and thus I was never really able to invest emotionally in them or really care what happened to them in the end.Overall, a disappointment to me.