Twice in a Lifetime
Twice in a Lifetime

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- 64/100 based on 1,371 votes
  • Released: 1985
  • Runtime: 111 mins
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  • Studio: Bud Yorkin Productions
  • Genres: Drama

A middle-aged steelworker is content with his job and his family, but feels that something is missing in his life. On his 50th birthday, he stops in at a local bar for a drink to celebrate. He finds himself attracted to the very sexy barmaid and, to his surprise, he finds that she is also very attracted to him.... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Twice in a Lifetime:

Gene Hackman
Ann-Margret
Ellen Burstyn
Amy Madigan
Ally Sheedy
Stephen Lang

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A middle-aged steelworker is content with his job and his family, but feels that something is missing in his life. On his 50th birthday, he stops in at a local bar for a drink to celebrate. He finds himself attracted to the very sexy barmaid and, to his surprise, he finds that she is also very attracted to him.

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The Associated Press - 9/10 by Bob ThomasIo its credit, the film has a surprising and likely to be controversial ending. It creates moments of genuine tension that take us beyond the issue of who is more at fault and into the deeper question of what does a lifetime of commitment really require?
Chicago Sun-Times - 9/10 by Roger EbertThe movie does not have a conventional happy ending. Life will go on, and people will strive, and new routines will replace old ones. The movie has no villains and few heroes. But it has given us several remarkable scenes, especially two confrontations between Madigan and Hackman, one in a bar, the other at a wedding rehearsal, in which the movie shows how much children expect from their parents, and how little the parents often have to give.
The A.V. Club - 9/10 by Nathan RabinAn unusually perceptive look at subjects seldom explored in American film—the emotional lives of working-class extended families and middle-aged sexuality—Twice In A Lifetime is especially poignant when documenting the collateral damage the central affair causes to Hackman's wife (a touching Ellen Burstyn) and bitter adult daughter (Amy Madigan).
Entertainment Weekly - 8/10 by Gregory Kirschling”With her it’s sex?” a weepy Ellen Burstyn asks husband Gene Hackman in Twice in a Lifetime, a sensitive divorce drama that finds her wondering why Hackman’s steel-mill man is jilting her late in life for jezebel barmaid Ann-Margret. ”Of course it’s sex,” Hackman replies testily. ”It’s important.” Good scene, but it’s jarring, too, because it reminds you just how rarely this master actor has been asked to play a man in heat over the course of his long career.
DVDTalk.com - 7/10 by Scott WeinbergAt times so personal that the act of watching the movie often feels like eavesdropping.
The New York Times - 6/10 by Janet MaslinAn enjoyable, second-rate family drama rich in the kind of folk wisdom that can ordinarily be found on daytime television.
Washington Post - 6/10 by Rita KempleyThis weightless melodrama exhibits the kind of condescending “fairness” (nobody's right, nobody's wrong—these things just happen, that's all) that is often taken for artistic maturity, but just as frequently reflects a reluctance to engage the material on a deep emotional level.
Spirituality and Practice - 5/10 by Frederic and Mary Ann BrussatExamines the impact of divorce on an entire family
Los Angeles Times - 3/10 by Sheila BensonThese characters need rescuing from screenwriter Colin Welland’s view of life in middle-class America as oppressively banal. By the time he gets finished sketching in the deadening of the American family, you may feel like beating Hackman to the front door...Twice in a Lifetime is a dreary masquerade of a serious movie.
User Review - 10/10 by MEC rExcellent, under-appreciated comedy-drama about a marriage that falls apart rather subtly, as husband and wife gradually become different people. Beautifully written and acted-- Ann Margret is a revelation as always.

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