The Private Lives of Pippa Lee is a 2009 American romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Rebecca Miller.

It features an ensemble cast including Robin Wright, Alan Arkin, Maria Bello, Monica Bellucci, Blake Lively, Julianne Moore, Keanu Reeves, and Winona Ryder.

Trish discovers that Pippa is participating in erotic photo sessions with Kat and her friends; she is banished and goes on to live a bohemian life of drugs, working as an exotic dancer.

On a weekend jaunt with like-minded friends, Pippa meets charismatic publisher Herbert "Herb" Lee, who is 30 years older than her.

The site's critical consensus reads: "Reverential and offbeat, the road trip film Private lives of Pippa Lee takes emotional detours and is elevated by great performances, particularly that of Robin Wright-Penn.

"[7] Trevor Johnston of Time Out London rated the film three out of five stars and commented: "No challenge to surmise where all this is heading, but there are pleasures to be had while it takes the scenic route.

With the story structure working backwards and forwards at the same time, the lack of tension is no surprise, nor does Miller help herself by flitting through a variety of moods, from period satire, whimsical imagining and character comedy to more sinewy drama.

She continued: "The whole thing is vaguely reminiscent of post-war domestic dramas aimed at a daytime audience of housewives – like a photo-negative of Brief Encounter ... Miller's self-adapted script is no more strained and compromised than the average book-to-film adaptation, but one wishes that she'd seized this amazing opportunity to take liberties with her own work ...

The film's basic structure is to alternate between Pippa's present-day life as a suburban Mom and her wild youth, but the transitions are often awkward and the polar opposite moods of each part tend to work against rather than reinforce each other.

[11]Alissa Simon of Variety noted: "Cardboard characters and severe problems of tone fatally flaw the awkward satirical relationship drama [that] feels as schizophrenic as its eponymous heroine ...

While the film marks a change of pace from the intense seriousness of Miller's earlier work, she never finds the dark comic edge that would make Pippa more satisfying viewing.