Hope Springs

Director: David Frankel
Cast: Meryl Streep, Steve Carell, Tommy Lee Jones
Language: English, French, Czech
Theatrical Release Date: August 8, 2012
Distributor: Columbia Pictures

Synopsis: Written by Vanessa Taylor, the story is about a wife (Maeve, played by Streep) who, in order to spice things up and reconnect with her husband (Jones), persuades him to spend a weekend in the town of Great Hope Springs attending an intense week of marriage and sex therapy with a famed relationship guru (Carell). Getting to the session was hard enough... now shedding their bedroom hang ups, learning some new moves and rediscovering their youthful spark is when the real adventure begins. [Synopsis courtesy of IOnCinema]

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