Sanford Rosenberg, President, Media Research Associates, Partner/co-founder of Front Street Productions, is very pleased to announce the Warner Independent Pictures theatrical release of Front Street's new film, opening August 13, 2004 in New York and Los Angeles, in 100 cities on August 20.

WE DON'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE

Ordinary Lives. Extraordinary Emotions.
WINNER of the WALDO SALT SCREENWRITING Award (Sundance Film Festival 2004)

Starring: Mark Ruffalo, Peter Krause, Naomi Watts and Laura Dern

Based on two works by Andre Dubus, WE DON'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE is a sexy and provocative drama about married life and its discontents. Keenly observed, the film charts the amorous affair of a married man with his best friend's wife and how their liaison upsets the delicate balance of their relationships, culminating in a fling between their spouses. Unfolding from four alternating viewpoints, the story captures the paradoxical actions of loving parents determined to save marriages they secretly long to escape, as the couples struggle through their emotional and sexual entanglement. With a wry, knowing humor, WE DON'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE reveals the perverse logic of infidelity -- and the complicity, denial and occasional cruelty that can accompany it.

In the vivid domestic drama We Don't Live Here Anymore, which is easily the best American movie so far this year, Dern gives an enormous, fully emotional performance, but she never ceases to play her character, a housewife in a troubled marriage-- she never becomes a diva
-New Yorker, David Denby, 8/30/2004

We Don't Live Here Anymore is spellbinding stuff-in part because of its vivid characterizations. But while Dern's gaunt, smoldering intensity is oddly complemented by Krause's opaque diffidence, Ruffalo and Watts are the stellar couple. Ruffalo's Jack-at once furtive, funny, hapless yet smarmy-is his most achieved and abject character to date, while Watts's Edith projects a fragility that might be made of tempered steel.
-Village Voice, J. Hoberman, 8/11/2004

Based on two short stories by Andre Dubus (In the Bedroom), We Don't Live Here Anymore -- astutely directed by John Curran, from an artful screenplay by Larry Gross -- sets off sexual fireworks that leave scorched earth. This is Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? for disaffected young marrieds.
-Rolling Stone, Peter Travers, 8/5/2004

It insists that there is no end to human weakness, and not much cure for it either. That's pretty strong stuff. -New York Times, A.O. Scott, 8/13/2004

We Don't Live Here Anymore is a revelation. One rarely sees American-made movies that are so unafraid to explore emotional cruelty and portray the consequences without positing easy answers or attaching happy endings.
-USA Today, Claudia Puig, 8/12/2004

The great accomplishment of the new film We Don't Live Here Anymore is that it so freshly and forcefully takes the temperature of such treacheries and heroics.
-LA Weekly, F.X. Feeney, 8/13/2004

Virtually no one would deny that adultery is a form of betrayal, but only rarely is it presented on screen as more than that. It's occasionally allowed to be sexy, usually muffled by guilt. What films almost never have the daring or sophistication to show is that adultery can be less a violation of life than a desperate, deeply urgent expression of it. We Don't Live Here Anymore, a wrenchingly intimate drama of marital infidelity, is the kind of movie for, and about, grown-ups that people used to talk about wanting to see but that just about no one makes anymore. -Entertainment Weekly, Owen Gleiberman, 8/11/2004

A sense of unease, of incompleteness, is, I think, the appropriate response to this movie. Instead of trying to fill in the blanks, Curran and Gross leave things open and ambiguous. Just like life.
-New York Metro, Peter Rainer, 8/13/2004

A tale of emotional treachery and attempted recoupment among civilized folk in a university environment, the film trades in such fundamental conflicts as the desire to keep one's family together versus the lure of freedom, and respecting a close friend's marriage versus giving in to mutual lust for his or her partner.
-Variety, 1/22/2004

In this smart insight into modern-day relationships, screenwriter Larry Gross has distilled from two works by author Andre Dubus, a vexing portrait of the power struggles within generally good marriages. Through his deft dissection of the fissures in each marriage, Gross illuminates both the hidden needs of these four "good" people as well as their selfish desires. In short, there is no one to blame rather, we see how each character struggles to maintain their relationship but how each character subverts the marriage.
-Hollywood Reporter, 1/26/2004

http://www.frontstreetprods.com/ A Warner Independent Pictures release of a Renaissance Films presentation of a Front Street Pictures presentation. Produced by Harvey Kahn, Naomi Watts, Jonas Goodman. Executive producers, Ruth Epstein, Mark Ruffalo, Larry Gross. Co-producers, Ken Lawson, Robert Lee, Sanford Rosenberg. Directed by John Curran. Screenplay, Larry Gross, based on the short stories "We Don't Live Here Anymore" and "Adultery" by Andre Dubus.