Hope Springs
Hope Springs, a serious American adult drama about the complications of intimacy in a long-term marriage, wraps itself in the safety of a surface-y American comedy about an aging married couple fumbling with sex — the lack of it. The movie provides a master lesson in great American character acting, but viewers are also invited to just kick back and enjoy the fun of watching famous, aging movie stars pretend to have difficulties in the sack. Spectacularly well matched and attuned to each other, Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones offer two of the finest performances of the year. (Yes, Streep, again. And Jones is a revelation.) But you'd never know it from the silly trailer, with its nudge-nudge clips and vaudeville-size hints of a ''threesome.''
This is a smart, ambitious, offbeat and emotionally rich treat for adults that
quite honestly addresses the realities of marriage and adult intimacy, and for
that reason, it's a miracle it managed to get made in the first place.
A film made by adults for adults that treats a serious topic with intelligence,
humor and compassion, and that is something rare and special.
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