One of our two featured releases for this week is Hope Springs. After 30 years of marriage, Arnold (Tommy Lee Jones) and Kay (Meryl Streep), a middle-aged husband and wife, have settled into a comfortable routine. Their kids are grown up and have moved out. Conversation is rare, and sex is nonexistent. Determined to break out of their rut, Kay manages to persuade Arnold to join her on a weeklong counseling session to work on their relationship with renowned author and therapist Dr. Feld (Steve Carell).

Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly write, “Spectacularly well matched and attuned to each other, Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones offer two of the finest performances of the year.”

Justin Chang of Variety writes, “Hope Springs is an altogether pleasant surprise: a mainstream dramedy that frankly and intelligently addresses the challenges facing a couple after 31 years of marriage. At once entirely accessible and quietly radical in its intimacy and directness, helmer David Frankel’s latest picture to weigh the comforts and dissatisfactions of domestic life wisely lets Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones carry a simple but deeply felt story like the pros they are.”

Hope Springs is being released today, August 8th, and HSX estimates that it will open at about $16M through this weekend.

Rating: PG-13 //
Genre: Comedy, Drama //
Runtime: 1 hr. 40 min. //
Starring: Meryl Streep, Tommy Lee Jones and Steve Carell //
Directed by: David Frankel //
Written by: Vanessa Taylor//
Produced by: Management 360, Escape Artists and Mandate Pictures//
Distributed by: Columbia Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)