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The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
After her much older husband forces a move to a suburban retirement community, Pippa Lee engages in a period of reflection and finds herself heading toward a quiet nervous breakdown. (imdb)
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The Private Lives of Pippa Lee

2009
Drama
1h 38m
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Avg Percentile 38.55% from 221 total ratings

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Rated 07 Apr 2011
45
36th
I don't understand how stiff she got the directing, though the script was just marv. She should get much more out of it. I liked the fantasy element though.
Rated 23 Feb 2009
55
39th
Robin Wright Penn, leading the diverse cast, is always watchable and her character of Pippa is original. While the film is never particularly funny nor touching, it's still a fairly good time.
Rated 12 Dec 2009
70
24th
Possibly Robin Wright's best work ever, and yet it's so very hard to recommend this film...
Rated 06 Feb 2010
0
11th
Rated 09 Jan 2010
90
98th
Fantastic movie. Incredible cast, acting, script. We loved it.
Rated 09 Feb 2010
50
23rd
All over the place.
Rated 07 Nov 2011
68
13th
Starts off quite interestingly with an enigmatic concept, but after halfway through, no mystery remains, and the spark soon dies. The acting is reasonably good but there's a grating voiceover and well, melodramatic women problems just don't do it for me that much. Pretty average and forgettable.
Rated 02 Dec 2014
79
53rd
From time to time the story and direction seemed like Woody Allen had something to do with it.
Rated 10 Feb 2024
71
47th
My ★★★½ review of The Private Lives of Pippa Lee on Letterboxd https://boxd.it/5NGxh5
Rated 08 Oct 2009
0
4th
Poor filmmaking. Could've just read about it and been just as bored as I was watching it. The voiceover is lazy and annoying, it's like Miller can't reveal anything about her characters without using it. I just didn't care about Pippa and there was no reason to either. Still, Keanu's acting made me ROFL.
Rated 15 Nov 2010
20
41st
"Pippa Lee is conceived as a portrait of a woman's long-delayed emotional blossoming, but its dopey, privileged-set fantasy winds up as obvious as crawling through Keanu's open window." - Bill Weber
Rated 02 Jul 2010
60
50th
A decent drama about an aging housewife coming to terms with her past, present and future. Robin Wright is rather good in the lead.
Rated 19 Jul 2010
4
6th
Easy watching, fairly enjoyable like a holiday read, but not particularly memorable.
Rated 29 Dec 2010
29
10th
A surprisingly flavorless affair. The film examines Pippa's journey with special attention given to all the ways she's been exploited, emotionally and otherwise, by the various people in her life, an attention that's presumably meant to give extra meaning to the moments when she's able to break away and declare her freedom. The film is a dull, serious trudge with the occasional forcefully quirky moment that indicates that Miller can't quite figure out what she wants the film to be.

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