The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
Monday, November 16, 2009
Rebecca Miller talks about adapting her novel The Private Lives of Pippa Lee for the screen. The film, which she also directed, stars Robin Wright Penn, Alan Arkin, Blake Lively, Winona Ryder, Keanu Reeves, and Julianne Moore, among others. It tells the story of Pippa Lee, who is only fifty when her older husband decides that they should move to a retirement community in Connecticut, which prompts her to have a kind of quiet midlife crisis. The film "The Private Lives of Pippa Lee" opens in New York November 27 at Clearview Cinemas on 62nd and 1st and the Angelika Film Center.
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