The Bourne Legacy and The Campaign opened over the weekend with enough gusto to topple The Dark Knight Rises from its box office throne, though the final installment in the Christopher Nolan-directed Batman trilogy still held solid in the third spot in the overall box office rankings. Hope Springs gained momentum after its mid-week bow, while Total Recall lands soft in its second frame.
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Hope Springs is not what it says on the package. The trailer is all comedy and quirk, but the movie is not.
Let’s face it though, the premise is a hard sell. Films about old people are anathema to mainstream Hollywood. Since the success of Cocoon — which featured its over-50 cast rejuvenated by a swimming pool containing alien pods — movies featuring actors of a certain age are rare, and despite the success of Space Cowboys, The Straight Story and Meryl Streep's last Oscar-winning vehicle, The Iron Lady, it is almost impossible to get a film made unless someone under 20 is pivotal to the script. more »
Here is the first trailer for Hope Springs, featuring Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones as a 60-something married couple on a steep sexual downswing. What to do? Travel to Dr. Steve Carell's Seaside Coitus Clinic, of course, where, with the director of The Devil Wears Prada and Marley & Me, the group will explore the all the carnal dilemmas of our proto-senior population.
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