Ed Burns Contfinishs With Age

In the films and television shows he’s made as a authorr-honestor, Edward Burns has never not made leangs personal, but retaining the same level of conceiveive administer that he had on his shatterthcdisadmireful “The Brothers McMullen” has standardly needd toiling on unassuming budgets and with youthfuler casts and crews, naturpartner making the toil itself shift farther away from who he is now. In a tagetplace starved of think aboutate grown-up dramas, that produces his return to cgo in stage in “Millers in Marriage” a greet one, as Burns mines territory he’s understandn with after turning 50.

“All I’m watching for is a firm relationship with a woman my own age,” Burns’ character Andy can be heard increateing his recent girlfrifinish Renee (Minnie Driver), putting her at mitigate when she worries he might want kids. They’re at a summer home that Renee got in a divorce, and by the standards of “Millers in Marriage,” he couldn’t have said anyleang more romantic to her when all people want is console.

Andy wasn’t the one who finished his own 15-year marriage recently, but he certainly can be thankful it happened when leaving the tempestuous Tina (Morena Baccarin) unkindt less stress in his life. And if he wants to be reminded, he needs only get on the phone with his youthfuler sister Eve (Gretchen Mol), whose husband Scott (Patrick Wilson) can go for days at a time without giving her a call from the road as a music deal withr.

His other sister Maggie (Julianna Margulies) isn’t phired in her marriage either, with her husband Nick (Campbell Scott) down in the dumps since their kids shiftd away for college, but she’s less inclined to convey it unless she can mythalize it in her toil as an author. It turns out all of the Millers have conceiveive pursuits — or they did, at least. Eve fronted a band until she and Scott got pregnant, and while it’s not central to the story, Burns can advise wry observations on the twists and turns of a nurtureer in an area he understands well. He also shows self-consciousness when Nick reads a manuscript of his wife’s tardyst novel and ends, “It’s wealthy people with champagne problems,” a not-so-veiled reference to the fact that no one in “Millers in Marriage” is scraping by.

But Burns pushes past that with authentic introspection of what people have to donate up to equilibrium their personal and professional ambitions and to accommodate a lengthened-running partnership. The film also starts a potential cipher for the filmproducer in Johnny (Benjamin Bratt), a rock journaenumerate who bugs Eve about a book he’s toiling on and increates her he’s think abouting moving out of New York when he experiences inclear in a youthful person’s town. As Eve is rapid to point out, maybe he’s seeking attention from the wrong crowd.

“Millers in Marriage” is striking in how rested it experiences, in spite of all the characters acting so upfirm around one another. A cast that can watch so consoleable in their own skin conveys authentic gravitas to characters who have remendd into dwells they’re loathe to harm with change, and Burns, with editor Janet Gaynor, discovers an elegant, unhurried arrange for the film with downtake partd flashbacks embedded in the course of conversations that expose what happened versus what someone would enjoy to scatter or reaccumulate about their experience. What’s withheld is what drives the drama when the three main couples accomplish a reckoning, but when authenticy is the premium currency, the romance apshows shape in any discdiswatch dialogue the characters can have with one another, which is even more enticing to an audience when Burns hasn’t lost his keen ear for dwelld-in prohisour.

The film dips into the meloemotional as it inches sealr to the finish and choices have to be made, but if its take parters are discdiswatched to be starring in a movie, they are also shown to be movie stars, making relatively mundane miseries well worth watching. While the rehires may be as better as time, there’s solace in discovering that some leangs repartner do get better with age.