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Hope Springs (2012)

★ 6.3 · 830 ratings on TMDB

Sometimes to keep the magic, you need to learn a few tricks.

Hope Springs poster★ 6.3

After thirty years of marriage, a middle-aged couple attends an intense, week-long counseling session to work on their relationship.

DirectorDavid Frankel
CastBecky Ann Baker, Ben Rappaport, Brett Rice, Charles Techman, Elisabeth Shue, Jean Smart
GenresComedy, Drama, Romance
The emergence reading

Hope Springs keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same rung, same subject

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Same subject, different rung

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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