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A Good Marriage (2014)

R  |   |  Thriller  |  3 October 2014 (USA)
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After 25 years of a good marriage, what will Darcy do once she discovers her husband's sinister secret?

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Darcy Anderson
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Bob Anderson
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Holt Ramsey
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Betty Pike
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Petra Anderson
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Bill Gaines
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Donnie Anderson
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After 25 years of a good marriage, what will Darcy do once she discovers her husband's sinister secret?

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Two can keep a secret, if one of them is dead.

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A Good Marriage is based on a novella by Stephen King, published in his collection Full Dark, No Stars (2010). See more »

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(at around 31 mins) Just after Bob has asked for half a cup of coffee, a woman passes in front of him carrying a purse in one bent arm and a sweater in the other bent arm but as she walks behind him, the purse and the sweater have disappeared and her arms swing freely at her side. See more »

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Bob Anderson: [as narrator] I fled him down the nights and down the days. I fled him down the arches of the years. I fled him down the labyrinthine ways of my own mind. And in the mist of tears, I hid from him, and under running laughter.
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It Teeters
3 September 2015 | by (United States) – See all my reviews

If it were not for Joan Allen's commitment to her role, I would say an absolute zero. This movie isn't suspenseful. In fact, it comes off as darkly humorous which may be the point. But, it's such a fine line that you can't but feel what this movie could've been.

This movie is about talking in rooms. And the mundane life of marriage. Then they add in a twist, and the twist, had it been 1980's would've been groundbreaking. Now, because of our "48 Hours Mysteries" or "American Crime" shows, the shock value falls flat. And that's unfortunate for the material, because it does have nice moments. But it never comes together to feel like a completely movie. There are throwaway scenes, characters popping in and out, who are superfluous (which I'm sure in the book made more sense). And overall, the relationship between Allen and Anthony LaPaglia (who plays the husband) never felt right. No matter how often they professed their love of each other. The other frustrating thing about this movie is it never establishes a person we can identify with. I suppose Stephen Lang's character who comes in way too late. So it's strange it never fully taps the moments that could've uplifted it into something darker. LaPaglia's character (Bob) would've been better suited for someone more midwestern normal like Terry O'Quinn. Man, that guy is scary just being normal. Or Dylan Baker.

Finally, the look of the movie. It's flat and dull. Every King movie up to this point is lens'd like a movie. This looks like a Lifetime special. Which I can't blame them, since it's digital and looks digital.There's suppose to be grit to movies. This looks like a student shot it. Awful. It actually took me completely away from the content of the movie. It had a phony sense to it. Done to extreme, say...a Douglas Sirk view, it would add a style to the material. This just seemed lost to what it wanted (or survival of coverage, just to get it shot). Either way, it's not a disaster of a movie. But it leaves you disappointed that King would slap his name on this.


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