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- What's the Story? Adapted from a novel by Rebecca Miller, who also directs, THE PRIVATE LIVES OF PIPPA LEE finds the titular Pippa (Robin Wright Penn) -- an upstanding wife and mother -- reluctantly moving with her much older husband, Herb (Alan Arkin), to a retirement community, where her only peer is the angry son (Keanu Reeves) of a neighbor.
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The Private Lives of Pippa Lee is a 2009 American romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Rebecca Miller. The screenplay is based on her novel of the same name. It features an ensemble cast including Robin Wright, Alan Arkin, Maria Bello, Monica Bellucci, Blake Lively, Julianne Moore, Keanu Reeves, and Winona Ryder.
Ms. Miller’s fourth film, adapted from her novel of the same name, “The Private Lives of Pippa Lee” stars Robin Wright Penn, an actress not known for playing demure types, as Pippa, the...
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee: Directed by Rebecca Miller. With Robin Wright, Mike Binder, Alan Arkin, Winona Ryder. 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.
- (14K)
- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Rebecca Miller
- 2009-07-10
Aug 12, 2008 · In her debut novel, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, a former teenage wild child leaves a comfortable life in Manhattan to reside in a retirement community with her much older husband, a...
Nov 25, 2009 · Without any clear sense of herself, Pippa Lee (Robin Wright Penn) has been shaped by others — first her peers, then her husband and children, always living solidly in the present.
- Ian Buckwalter
Pippa Lee's outwardly perfect suburban life conceals a tumultuous past full of torment and angst. Neglected by her pill-popping mother and exploited by her Aunt's lover, she meets and marries Herb, a charming book publisher 30 years her senior.
Pippa tells us about her life, in long flashbacks, starting with her birth to a mom who was a social dynamo and addicted to pills. As a teen, Pippa moves out and lives a hippie life until meeting Herb, who was then married to a young siren. Pippa discloses tragedies and discoveries.
