Cool, restrained and steeped in tight-lipped WASP repression, producer Pieter Jan Brugge's directing debut tells two intimately connected stories simultaneously and unites them in a chilly fog of sadness. Having made a fortune in the car-rental business and cashed out, businessman Wayne Hayes (Robert Redford) is restless and unfulfilled. Their children grown, he and his wife, Eileen (Helen Mirren), build their dream home in Pittsburgh, but Wayne can't bring himself to stop working and Eileen submerges her restlessness in petty, make-work pastimes. Still, their relationship appears familiar and loving, if a little cool, and their lives ordinary, if more than usually p...
Released:
2004
Rated:
R
Length:
91 mins