In their small New England college town, Jack Linden (
Mark Ruffalo) and Hank Evans (
Peter Krause) are the best of friends. Fellow instructors at the university, the two enjoy the camaraderie of men who have shared interests and similar circumstances.
Both fathers of young children, the men's home lives, however, are markedly different. The Linden household is chaotic and cluttered; Jack's wife Terry (
Laura Dern) is a headstrong woman but a distracted homemaker. Hank's Edith (
Naomi Watts), on the other hand, keeps an immaculate home.
The couples have each other over for dinner often, enjoying the conversation and company, laughing and flirting as friends do. But Jack and Edith have been disappearing at the same time lately, and Terry is beginning to notice.
Canadian Connection: Filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia.
The movie became very boring by the end of it. I like Ruffalo and Dern in this movie, but, overall, it was not worth the rental. Better to rent other movies about relationships/cheating, like CLOSER or THE SECRET LIVES OF DENTISTS
Although the acting was excellent, this movie definately fell short of my expectations. No matter HOW expressive people can be, there is only so much you can convey through facial expressions. The script was much too minimalistic for my liking which made the character`s predicaments seem contrived.