Mike Binder

Blast From the Past to Kingdom Come

MOVIE REVIEW
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (2009)

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Screen Media Films

You’re sure to recognize Pippa Lee (Robin Wright Penn). She’s a pretty, devoted housewife, a regular at the stores near her Connecticut home. Her passivity — her devotion to the blandest of routines — blends her inextricably to her surroundings. They seem to have shaped every contour of her life; whoever she once was and wherever she came from buried beneath a sort of high-class suburban malaise.

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