If top-of-the-line acting is your pleasure then look no further. Streep and Jones are as good as it gets and playing real people with real problems. Okay, it may be a tad too neatly resolved but lightness of touch is the watchword here and Steve Carell in particular does sterling work in what is more or less a straight dramatic role. The situation is probably a familiar one in three or four out of ten marriages, a gradual drifting apart once the kids have grown up and left home, too many other things to distract from time together. In many cases both partners accept it and reach a tacit agreement to live more or less separate lives under a shared roof but now and again one partner decides it's not good enough and here that partner is Streep who takes it upon herself to seek help from professional Carell. Jones is predictably anti and the bulk of the film is the conflict. It's probably being mis-sold as a comedy when it is in fact a serious look at a serious subject. Well worth watching.
Review of Hope Springs
