Think being married today is complicated? Try getting hitched in the late 1940s, an era when divorce was simply not what respectable people considered unless under dire circumstances.
The new period drama “Married Life,” now out on DVD, takes that conceit and runs with it rather brilliantly.
Chris Cooper plays Harry, a married man who falls hard for a pretty widow (Rachel McAdams). But how can he marry her without crushing his wife Pat (Patricia Clarkson) to whom regular sex is the last remaining vestige of their bond?
Harry decides to kill her - to spare her the pain and humiliation of divorce. What a guy.
