The Private Lives of Pippa Lee

The Private Lives of Pippa Lee is a film that concerns itself with the people in it, rather than a narrative. Each character is unique and well developed, but more importantly, feels real and easy to care for. There are no... Full review

Miller has compassion for all her characters, not just Pippa Lee.....she has now written and directed a movie based on her own novel but, of course, it can't be any good.....A movie with a cast this good is rare;....an intelligent, emotional drama that's confronting, surprising, elegant and still funny.....Wright Penn so dominates the film that I was content..... ... Full Review

But the movie has an outstanding cast who give brilliant performances across the board.....shooting porn, among other things, represents one of the movie's biggest weaknesses.....Alan Arkin's Herb Lee is one of the movie's most fascinating characters....Pippa's mother, played by Maria Bello in one of her best performances, was a stepford wife kind of a woman.....Miller has a brilliant way of creating flesh-and-blood people rather than movie characters, in such things as sleepwalking.... ... Full Review

Robin Wright Penn gives one of her best performances as Pippa, the devoted wife of elderly publisher Herb (Alan Arkin).....Director Rebecca Miller has adapted her own novel into an enjoyable if episodic tale.... ... Full Review

Yet Miller's film is a triumph.....Buttressed by a formidable cast (including Winona Ryder as Pippa's neurotic friend and Monica Bellucci as Herb's first wife), Miller navigates her story between sharp satire, dark comedy and wrenching drama.....* * * * Until now, the gifted writer-director Rebecca Miller has always conveyed her spiky intelligence more effectively in print rather than on screen;....In the title role, the splendid Robin Wright Penn gets to tackle work worthy of her talents..... ... Full Review

humorous, charming, but tragic female-driven dramas go.....This film comes highly recommended....Wright Penn expertly blends Pippa's past tragedy and loneliness of her current comfortable 'retired' life with some hilariously sardonic moments....immensely absorbing new tale of self-reflection that will speak volumes for so many 'lost and taken-for-granted souls' out there.....truly amazes in a heavenly and award-winning performance as Pippa Lee, combining a beauty, grace, wisdom, fragility, and all-consuming ... Full Review

Golden Globe nominee Robin Wright Penn and Gossip Girl's Blake Lively head an all-star cast including, Alan Arkin, Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder and Julianne Moore, in The Private Lives of Pippa Lee , available on DVD for the first time... ... Full Article

Staff Reporter Yo, Keanu! This way, Robin! Oprah, dear, please! Over the shoulder, love! Let it be known, however, that very few of the red carpet shooters are of the paparazzi variety, as some might believe - and there is... ... Full Article

"The Private Lives of Pippa Lee" (Nov. 27) opens with the kind of unforgiving close-up that could give an actor nightmares. Starting with a glimpse of a woman combing her hair, the camera quickly zeroes in on the little pouch... ... Full Article

B efore the tumultuous distractions of Sean Penn, Robin Wright seemed to have an indisputable future on Hollywood's A-list. That was soon after her Emmy-nominated gig on the soap Santa Barbara, and her breakout role in 1987's The Princess Bride... ... Full Article

I t looks like celebrity stalking by celebrities, but Robin Wright Penn and Blake Lively appearing in the same two movies this fall ( The Private Lives of Pippa Lee and New York, I Love You ) is entirely coincidental. ... Full Article

That's quite an interesting lineup, eh? Writer/director Rebecca Miller , who also wrote "Proof," is back with her first directing gig since 2005's "The Ballad of Jack and Rose." " The Private Lives of Pippa Lee ," adapted from Miller's... ... Full Article