Pippalee Private

Pippalee Private
Facing retirement, Pippa Lee reflects on her past life including dealing with a neurotic mother and leaving home to live as a bohemian hippie.
Directors Rebecca Miller Starring Robin Wright Penn , Alan Arkin , Blake Lively Genres Comedy , Drama Subtitles English [CC] Audio languages English
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Supporting actors Maria Bello , Keanu Reeves , Winona Ryder , Julianne Moore , Monica Bellucci Producers Jean-Luc De Fanti , Jill Footlick , Warren T. Goz , Jeremy Kleiner , Stewart McMichael , more… Brad Pitt , Jeff Sagansky Studio Screen Media Ventures Rating R (Restricted) Content advisory Alcohol use , foul language , nudity , sexual content , smoking , more… violence Purchase rights Stream instantly Details Format Prime Video (streaming online video) Devices Available to watch on supported devices
Angela McFadden Reviewed in the United States on August 20, 2022
Refreshingly different. Likely relatable for many viewers even if they don't share the lead character's path in life. Would have cast a couple of parts differently but everyone did a great job.
Amazon Customer Reviewed in the United States on June 7, 2022
Not all that predictable. Throws you curve balls when not expecting them. All about the life trajectory of the lead Pippa. Relationships with her mother, her wild period, then settling in with an older man. Draws you in, makes you feel some of what she must be feeling. No villains here, people just being themselves. The cast is excellent in each role, even reeves who is usually not a very good actor. Overall, an excellent little film.
HC Reviewed in the United States on July 25, 2022
Interesting dramedy with Robin Wright
John Samsvick Reviewed in the United States on May 5, 2020
The writer of this riveting, engrossing story, of a lost soul finding the strength somehow to continue living, happens to be the daughter of the celebrated playwright, Arthur Miller, noted for his ability to craft great stories about life's struggles. Rebecca Miller is also the director of a brilliant cast of well-known actors including Robin Wright, Alan Arkin and Wynona Rider who play their roles with an authenticity that compels total immersion in the heart-breaking journey Pippa Sarkisian Lee must take to escape the destructive obsessions of a mother who battles 'obesity' and the crippling 'sadness' of depression with compulsive doses of 'speed'. Miss Miller makes it abundantly clear that her heroine will have none of the resources reputed to be available to those who hold to 'traditional values'. Her freedom from 'family' leads to years of a 'free-fall' of unbridled sexuality as a 'femme fatale". A chance acquaintance with Herb Lee, himself a failed 'writer" (and husband) whose career is salvaged by a publisher friend, (a role played to perfection by Alan Arkin), awakens Pippa to the stark reality that she has become a 'f...up' who is willing to give herself to him for the security of being delivered from herself. It turns out that marriage is the only 'protection' Lee does offer after three heart attacks threaten him with 'decrepitude'. The writer's creative gift is revealed in the way she finds an existential context in which Pippa Lee finds a soul mate in Chris Nadeau (played by Keena Reeves), a failure and drifter who admits he is an a....hole who tried becoming a "Jesuit", and a marriage which failed when he discovered his 'Jesus freak' wife a atop his best friend. Pippa had become aware of a lurking tenderness in her friend when she found him comforting a large dog injured in an accident. When she discovered Herb's unfaithfulness with a dear friend, she found herself reaching out to Chris: "It looks like nobody needs me now". The following love scene seems to be where Rebecca Miller wants to make her commitment to the belief that in the absence of any meaning which reason can find in the universe as we know it, there are inner resources in each person providing courage to affirm the goodness of life. What Pippa Lee needs most now is not the ravaging love of a lonely man; she longs now for a love that is true, pure and unselfish. That is what Rebecca Miller gives us. Chris helps Pippa achieve glorious relief and sexual satisfaction, while denying himself what would be expected. Viewers of that last scene may note how the director has placed Pippa's head with eyes looking upward. awed and lightened by a revelation that she had experienced the "ravishment" of true love.
Mary Lou George Reviewed in the United States on June 13, 2022
What would you expect from a movie with Robin Wright, Blake Lively, Alan Arkin and Wynona Rider?👍👍👍👍
Laura Lyles Reagan Reviewed in the United States on July 26, 2022
Jema Reviewed in the United States on June 27, 2022
a lovely story and wonderful acting especially by Robin Wright and Alan Arkin
Lisa in Cali Reviewed in the United States on April 29, 2021
I like this movie. Pippa is a woman people know for 25 years, but still find an enigma and that's because she doesn't even know herself. She had such a chaotic beginning to her life with a nother who was on drugs (like many unhappy housewives who got hooked on uppers or downers in the 60s and 70s) - a mother she never knew because those drugs smothered who she really was. Miller's words coming out of this character struck a chord with me when she described the pendulum of life that swings these generations from a self absorbed mother resulting in a daughter who becomes a selfless mother, rinse and repeat. I have said that for years and to see and hear it in that scene was a revelation. Pippa was a lost soul most of her life and it was interesting to see her when she's "waking up" - from sleep walking literally and figuratively.

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Pippa Lee (Robin Wright Penn) is a middle-aged woman married to a much older man named Herb (Alan Arkin), a celebrated publisher. After she and Herb move to a retirement community, Pippa's troubled past bubbles to the surface. Though a neighbor's son (Keanu Reeves) acts as her confidante, Pippa slowly inches toward a nervous breakdown.

R (Language|Brief Nudity|Sexual Content|Some Drug Material)

Comedy,

Drama

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Robin Wright

Pippa Lee

Keanu Reeves

Chris

Alan Arkin

Herb Lee

Julianne Moore

Kat

Winona Ryder

Sandra Dulles

Maria Bello

Suky Sarkissian

Monica Bellucci

Gigi Lee

Zoe Kazan

Grace Lee

Ryan James McDonald

Ben Lee

Blake Lively

Pippa at 16

Robin Weigert

Trish

Rebecca Miller

Director

Rebecca Miller

Screenwriter

Brad Pitt

Executive Producer

Jean-Luc De Fanti

Executive Producer

Jeff Sagansky

Executive Producer

Dede Gardner

Producer

Jeremy Kleiner

Producer

Lemore Syvan

Producer

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