Directed by Rebecca Miller
Writing Credis Rebecca Miller (novel and adaptation)
Cast Robin Wright Penn as Pippa Lee
Alan Arkin as Herb
Monica Bellucci as Gigi
Maria Bello as Suky
Blake Lively as Young Pippa
Julianne Moore as Kat
Keanu Reeves as Chris
Winona Ryder as Sandra
Genre Comedy/ Drama
Release Date 2009
Filming Dates Start Date: 14 April 2008 End Date: 8 June 2008
Filming locations Stamford, Connecticut, USA
Plot
At fifty, Pippa Lee (Robin Wright Penn) positively glows with feminine serenity, the devoted wife of a brilliant publisher thirty years her senior, the proud mother of successful twins, and a lovely and adored friend and neighbour.
But when her husband spontaneously decides they leave New York for Marigold Village retirement home as a "pre-emptive strike against decrepitude," and then proceeds to have an affair with someone even younger than she is, Pippa finds her carefully constructed persona unravelling in alarming ways. the truth is, the gracious woman of the present day has seen more than her fair share of the wild side: an array of erotic adventures, a diet-pill-addicted mother, a short-lived career in lesbian soft-porn, the glorious suicide of a love rival, until finding love and security in a family of her own. And now that cosy world, too, is in danger. In Pippa Lee we have an unconventional heroine and a fresh and funny portrait of the many lives behind a single name.