Feminism is redefined in "Hope Springs," a tale of two 60-somethings locked in a marriage gone stale and opting for a week of intensive marriage counselling in a picturesque Maine town.
Kay (Meryl Streep) and Arnold (Tommy Lee Jones) have been married for 31 years and it's obvious from the couple's nonconfrontational monosyllabic exchanges that she's been cooking his meals and folding his laundry for eternity, while he has parked himself in front of ESPN's Golf Network for a century and a half.
Wait, don't go away, because this is where the feminism part comes in: Kay is OK with that. As the story unfolds, you see it's not the predicament of frying two rashers of bacon and a sunny-side up for her husband every single morning till kingdom come (he's a full-on American breakfast kinda guy); it's the fact that he no longer "touches" her sexually that bothers her so much. Um, for real, Kay?
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