THE PRIVATE LIVES
OF PIPPA LEE

Year: 2009
USA: Screen Media Films
UK: Icon Film Distribution
UK DVD: Icon Home Entertainment
Cast: Robin Wright Penn, Alan Arkin, Keanu Reeves, Monica Bellucci, Julianne Moore, Winona Ryder, Mario Bello, Blake Lively, Mike Binder, Ryan McDonald, Cornelius West, Tim Guinee, Madeline McNulty, Drew Beasley, Beckett Melville, Zoe Kazan, Billy Wheelan, Shirley Knight
Director: Rebecca Miller
Country: USA
USA & UK: 98 mins
USA Rated: R for sexual content, brief nudity, some drug material and language
UK Certificate: 15 contains strong sex & language, and drug, suicide and self harm references
USA Release Date: 27 November 2009 (Limited Release)
UK Release Date: 10 July 2009 (Limited Release)
UK DVD Release Date: 2 November 2009


Synopsis

From all outward appearances, Pippa Lee (Robin Wright Penn) leads a charmed existence. An anchor of feminine serenity, she is the devoted wife of an accomplished publisher (Alan Arkin) thirty years her senior, the proud mother of two grown children, and a trusted friend and confidant to all who cross her path. But as Pippa dutifully follows her husband to a new life in a staid Connecticut retirement community, her idyllic world and the persona she has built over the course of her marriage will be put to the ultimate test.

In truth, the gracious woman of the present day has seen more than her fair share of turmoil in her past - an array of erotic misadventures, a diet-pill-addicted mother and the suicide of an exotic rival - until finding love and security in a family of her own. Embarking on a bittersweet journey of self-discovery, along with help from a new, strange and soulful acquaintance (Keanu Reeves), Pippa must now confront both her volatile past and the hidden undercurrents of her seemingly placid world to find the true sense of self which has always eluded her.