We Don't Live Here Anymore is a 2004 drama film directed by John Curran and starring Mark Ruffalo, Laura Dern, Peter Krause, and Naomi Watts.
Jack asks him why he is still married to Edith when he loves another woman, but Hank scoffs at the idea of leaving, reasoning that people should have at least one affair.
Terry admits that on the night he and Edith left to go get beer, Hank drunkenly confessed to her that he doesn't love his wife, before attempting to kiss her.
Back at the Linden home, things come to a head between Jack and Terry and, after a fight, he confesses he is in love with Edith.
[1] We Don’t Live Here Anymore premiered in January 2004 at the Sundance Film Festival,[4] where it won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award for Larry Gross.
[5] Warner Independent Pictures purchased distribution rights for the film and it was given a limited theatrical release on August 13, 2004.
Its consensus states, "We Don't Live Here Anymore is often overly moody and grim, but it's made watchable by the strong performances of its four principal actors.
"[6] Writing for Variety, Todd McCarthy said "Ruffalo, in his underplayed manner, fully reveals the man in all his desires, hesitations and heartaches in relation to both his wife and lover.
He's matched exceptionally well by the shimmering Watts, who once again displays her quicksilver acting ability to slip from one telling mood to the next.
Maybe the point of the Dubus stories was to show perfunctory transgressions between characters not sufficiently motivated to accept the consequences.
Their games of one-upmanship and bravado fizzle with a kinetic tension as they strive harder to demonstrate their manhood to each other than to their wives, while it's the women who hold the trump cards and the bigger balls".
[9] In Creative Loafing, Felicia Feaster wrote, "The way adultery unfolds in We Don’t Live Here Anymore suggests it is less an expression of female will and desire as something men let happen to their wives out of indulgent boredom in Hank's case, or repressed rage in Jack's.
"[10] Laura Dern won Best Supporting Actress at the Boston Society of Film Critics Awards, in a tie with Sharon Warren for Ray.