Cooper and Clarkson

Sometimes we'll watch a movie for no reason other than that we really like the actors in the lead roles, which is how my wife and I ended up seeing Married Life on TV last night. Chris Cooper and Patricia Clarkson play a married couple, middle-aged and upper middle class, in the late 1940s. Cooper and Clarkson are character actors who are strong enough to carry a movie, and they do it again in this one. Married Life is not quite a heavy drama, a comedy, or a suspense thriller, but has traces of each of those genres. The plot revolves around the issue of marital infidelity, and how people who've been married a long time may not know each other as well as they think they do. A quiet film constructed to interest older, mature audiences like the bees, and recommended.