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Private Life (2018)

Private Life poster
Directed by
Tamara Jenkins
Genre
drama film, comedy film
Country
United States
Runtime
2h 03m
Rated
R
Rating
6.9 of 10 from 417 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A middle-aged couple in New York exhaust all options to conceive a child. Their marriage strains under the pressure of fertility treatments and adoption attempts.

emotionally rawfrustratingintimatequietly comicmelancholicrelatablehonest

What happens

Private Life is a 2018 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Tamara Jenkins and starring Paul Giamatti and Kathryn Hahn, with Kayli Carter, Molly Shannon, John Carroll Lynch, Desmin Borges, and Denis O'Hare in supporting roles. The film focuses on Richard and Rachel, a middle-aged married couple of New York City creatives, who are desperately trying to have a child by any means possible. The film had its world premiere on January 18 at the Sundance Film Festival. It was released on October 5, 2018, by Netflix. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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