Hope Springs

Hope Springs (2012) is a David Frankel dramedy you can watch online on iFILM. Kay and Arnold have been married thirty-one years, and somewhere along the way they stopped sharing a bedroom and stopped really talking.

Tired of the silence, Kay signs them both up for a week of intensive couples counseling in a small town in Maine. Arnold comes along grumbling, sure the whole thing is a waste of money. Dr. Feld asks the questions they have spent decades avoiding and hands out homework that leaves them both squirming. Meryl Streep plays Kay, Tommy Lee Jones her stubborn husband, and Steve Carell the soft-spoken therapist, dialing his comedy way down.

The film looks at intimacy, routine, and the fear of change without sentimentality, and it is rare to find a romance built around a couple in their sixties. Two heavyweight performances turn a small, talky premise into an honest conversation about marriage. Stream Hope Springs (2012) online on iFILM.