How long will hope springs be in theaters

But I'm I'm really lonely. And to be with someone, when you're not really with him can I think I might be less lonely Sign In. Play trailer Comedy Drama Romance. Director David Frankel. Vanessa Taylor. Top credits Director David Frankel.

See more at IMDbPro. Trailer Hope Springs. Photos Top cast Edit. Meryl Streep Kay as Kay. Tommy Lee Jones Arnold as Arnold. David Frankel. Support Local Journalism. Join the Cleveland Scene Press Club. Local Culture Creative. Website powered by Foundation. Switch to the mobile version of this page. Cleveland Scene. The Bottom Line More comedic drama than midlife romantic comedy, rather literally titled Hope Springs holds few surprises but delivers plenty of warmth. Married 31 years, Kay Streep and Arnold Tommy Lee Jones have a comfortable, but routine marriage — perhaps too routine Kay begins to believe, wishing for the days when her inattentive husband took more of an active interest, or at least gave her the occasional affectionate hug and kiss.

Covering some well-worn territory, Hope Springs demonstrates both a highly customary view of romance and a well-established approach to filmmaking. So it takes top actors to raise some overly familiar material above the merely prosaic. At night, he falls asleep in his recliner while watching golf on TV, and she frets behind him, trying to get his attention. They have been married for thirty-one years. Eventually, they go off to separate bedrooms. But those films were all satirical, rambunctious, dizzy: adventure of some sort brought life and sex back into a marriage.

Kay and Arnold are presented as the dullest, safest, most frightened couple you can imagine, the image of frozen bourgeois respectability and timidity.

And the director David Frankel treats their soul-deadening routines by simply repeating them; he never accelerates the tempo or formalizes their life into a style.