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Private Lives of Pippa Lee (The)

Country: USA, Language: English, 93 mins

  • Director: Rebecca Miller
  • Writer: Rebecca Miller
  • Producer: Jill Footlick; Warren T. Goz

CGiii Comment

It does drag a bit in places - but, it is a sensitive and mature piece of work.


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The(ir) Blurb...

Pippa Lee feels dislocated when she and her husband Herb move from Manhattan to a retirement community. He's older than she, they have two children who are young adults, and the daughter hardly speaks to Pippa. Pippa tells us about her life, in long flashbacks, starting with her birth to a mom who was a social dynamo and addicted to pills. As a teen, Pippa moves out and lives a hippie life until meeting Herb, who was then married to a young siren. Pippa discloses tragedies and discoveries. In the present, she's sleepwalking at night and talking from time to time with a burned-out case, the 35-year-old son of a neighbor. Can Pippa connect?

Cast & Characters

Robin Wright Penn as Pippa Lee;
Mike Binder as Sam Shapiro;
Alan Arkin as Herb Lee;
Winona Ryder as Sandra Dulles;
Ryan McDonald as Ben Lee;
Cornelius West as Don Sexton;
Maria Bello as Suky Sarkissian;
Arnie Burton as Doctor;
Tim Guinee as Des Sarkissian;
Drew Beasley as Chester Sarkissian - Age 6;
Madeline McNulty as Young Pippa - Age 7;
Beckett Melville as Chester Sarkissian - Age 13;
Zoe Kazan as Grace Lee;
Billy Wheelan as Waiter;
Shirley Knight as Dot Nadeau