Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance Director(s): David Frankel Release Date: 08 August 2012 Movie rating: 6.3

With acting crew like Meryl Streep, Tommy Lee Jones, and Steve Carell, you can already assume that it is going to be hilarious from the beginning on. The story follows a married couple, Kay and Arnold, who have grown apart after all those years of marriage. Since the Kay isn't pretty happy with their way of life, she decides to do something about it, as well as making her man do the same. At one point, she finds a nice resort called Hope Springs, where one of the leading marriage counsellors deals with the problems of various couples. She buys the plane tickets and decides to take them both there. With Arnold feeling pretty reluctant about the whole therapy thing, they are not working together.. at least at first. But, as the story goes on, the find themselves managing to light the sparkle they had at the beginning of their relationship. Performances that were given by both Meryl Streep, Tommy Lee Jones, as husband and wife, and Steve Carell, who gets the role of the counsellor, were outstanding. According to various critics, they had a chemistry throughout the whole movie. This movie shows everyday problems with married couples that have been together for a pretty long time and how they deal with that as well.

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