The veteran actors are heartbreaking and wonderful as a long-term pair struggling to find a new home in New York in Love Is Strange .
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Ben (John Lithgow) and George (Alfred Molina) have been together for 39 years, enjoying a modest but happy life in New York City when, thanks to the Marriage Equality Act, they're finally able to tie the knot. It's a joyous event that unexpectedly and terribly leads to the pair losing everything they've built, leaving them broke and without a home at an age in which they expected to be coasting into their golden years together. They find themselves separated and couch surfing, keeping a toehold in Manhattan courtesy of the waning patience of friends and family, stealing moments with each other like furtive teenagers.
Love Is Strange, which opens in select cities this Friday, Aug. 22, is a sneakily devastating new movie from director Ira Sachs about age, class, families of choice, and a city that's become increasingly financially unforgiving. It's a lilting story whose light tone and bright, sunny look are parallels to the cheery facades its two leads try to maintain in the face of increasing desperation. It's one of the best films of the year so far, a haunting portrayal of how easily things you took for granted can slip through your fingers and the way that dozens of loved ones can still make for only a tenuous safety net when you fall.
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