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2003 film

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. It is based on the short stories We Don't Live Here Anymore and Adultery by Andre Dubus. Set in Washington state, the film was shot around Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It premiered at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, where it was honored with the Waldo Salt Award for Best Screenplay. Warner Independent Pictures gave the film a limited release in theaters on August 13, 2004.

Jack and Hank are two friends who teach literature at the local university. They regularly meet for dinner as a quartet with their respective wives, Terry (married to Jack) and Edith (married to Hank). Edith and Jack embark on an affair, which Terry starts to become suspicious about but doesn’t outright confront her husband either. Instead, she gets closer to Hank, who is himself a womanizer. When Jack learns his wife has slept with Hank, he does not erupt in anger as Terry expected, and his indifferent reaction upsets Terry. The two couples must contend with the entanglements of their deceits and betrayals.

Naomi Watts, who had been longtime friends with director John Curran, had the choice of lead roles. She declined to play Terry because she had just finished filming “the emotionally draining” 21 Grams. where it won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award for Larry Gross. Warner Independent Pictures purchased distribution rights for the film and it was given a limited theatrical release on August 13, 2004. 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. She has superb moments here." However, he added, "What must be said is that the actors are better than the material. There are four specific people here, each one closely observed and carefully realized. Ruffalo's Jack, driven by his lust, finds his needs fascinating to himself; Naomi Watts' Edith finds them fascinating to her. Terry and Hank seem almost forced into their halfhearted affair, and Laura Dern and Peter Krause are precise in the way they show dutiful excitement in each other's presence, while Dern vibrates with anger and passion in her arguments with her husband."