They make halting attempts at intimacy on the bed of their budget motel and again in a movie theater, but this time with disastrous results.

Arnold visits a nautical museum.īack together, they spend the night in the same bed for the first time in years, and Kay awakes to find Arnold's arm around her. Upset, Kay goes alone to a bar where she has several glasses of wine, confides in the female bartender and learns that few others are having any sex, either. Both private and old-fashioned, Arnold is angry and defensive, unwilling to see the depth of his wife's disappointment. Feld counsels them, asking increasingly frank questions about their sex life and feelings. In sessions with the psychiatrist, they try to articulate their feelings, revitalize their relationship, and find the spark that caused them to fall in love in the first place.

Arnold, a creature of plodding, unimaginative routine, denies their marriage is in trouble. Bernie Feld in a coastal resort town in Maine. One day Kay, a Coldwater Creek employee, tells Arnold, a partner in an Omaha accounting firm, she has paid for them to undergo a week of intense marriage counseling with Dr. Married for thirty-one years, they have slept in separate bedrooms for various pragmatic reasons since their youngest child went off to college, and forgo any physical affection. It was nominated for a Golden Globe and won a People's Choice Award.Īlthough a devoted couple, empty nesters Kay and Arnold Soames are in need of help to reignite the spark in their marriage. It received generally positive reviews, and the cast was praised for their performances. The film was released on August 10, 2012. Hope Springs is a 2012 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by David Frankel, written by Vanessa Taylor, and starring Meryl Streep, Tommy Lee Jones, and Steve Carell.

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