Meryl Streep has proved that age will not wither her, continuing her hold on the big screen's dramatic female roles - walking off with an Oscar earlier this year for The Iron Lady - as well as broadening her range with a series of more lightweight roles, including singing her heart out in Mamma Mia! to cavorting with Alec Baldwin in It's Complicated.
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Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones in Hope Springs
Hope Springs sees her somewhere between the two, in a light but moving drama, telling the story of a devoted couple Kay and Arnold (Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones). Here's some blurb:
Decades of marriage have left Kay wanting to spice things up and reconnect with her husband. When she hears of a renowned couple’s specialist (Steve Carell) in the small town of Great Hope Springs, she attempts to persuade her sceptical husband, a steadfast man of routine, to get on a plane for a week of marriage therapy. Just convincing the stubborn Arnold to go on the retreat is hard enough - the real challenge for both of them comes as they shed their bedroom hang-ups and try to re-ignite the spark that caused them to fall for each other in the first place.
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Meryl Streep plays Kay, a woman wondering if there should be more going on
Hope Springs will be in UK cinemas from 14 September, and in the US a month earlier on 10 August.
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