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''Marriage Story'' is a 2019
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written and directed by
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, who also produced the film with
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. It stars
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and
Adam Driver Adam Douglas Driver (born November 19, 1983) is an American actor. He is the recipient of various accolades, including nominations for two Academy Awards, four Primetime Emmy Awards and a Tony Award; making him one of few performers nominated ...
as a warring couple going through a coast-to-coast divorce.
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,
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,
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,
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, and
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appear in supporting roles. The project was announced in November 2017, with the cast joining that same month. Filming took place in New York City and Los Angeles from January to April of the following year. Released by
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, the film premiered at the
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on August 29, 2019, and began a
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on November 6, followed by digital streaming on December 6. ''Marriage Story'' received critical acclaim, particularly for Baumbach's screenplay and direction and the performances of Johansson, Driver and Dern. Among its many accolades, the film received six nominations at the
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, including
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,
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, Best Actor (Driver), and
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(Johansson). For her performance, Dern won the
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, the
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, the
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, the
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and the
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for Best Supporting Actress.


Plot

Exit Ghost, the theater company owned by Charlie Barber, a successful theater director in New York City, is helming a play that stars his wife, Nicole, a former teen film actress. The couple are experiencing marital troubles and see a mediator, who suggests that they each write down what they love about one another, but Nicole is too embarrassed to read hers aloud and they decide to forgo the counseling. When Nicole is offered a starring role in a
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in Los Angeles, she decides to leave the company and temporarily live with her mother in
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, taking her son Henry. Charlie decides to stay in New York, as the play is moving to
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. Despite the couple agreeing to split amicably and forgo lawyers, Nicole hires Nora Fanshaw, a family lawyer, and tells her about how she gradually felt neglected by Charlie and how he rejects her ideas and desires. Nicole also suggests that Charlie slept with Mary Ann, the stage manager of his theater company. Charlie visits his family, revealing that he has won a
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grant, but Nicole declares divorce. Charlie meets with Jay Marotta, a brash and expensive lawyer who urges Charlie to fight dirty, but Charlie returns to New York without hiring him. He receives a phone call from Nora, who warns him to get a lawyer soon or risk losing custody of Henry. Charlie returns to Los Angeles and hires Bert Spitz, an empathetic and retired family lawyer who favors a civil and conciliatory approach. Henry spills to Charlie that Nicole wishes to live in Los Angeles and not move back to New York. A confused Charlie then calls Nicole, angrily interrogating her. Nicole then calls him out, revealing that she hacked his emails and learned of his affair with Mary Ann. Charlie later rents an apartment in Los Angeles, on Bert's counsel, to be closer to his family and strengthen his custody case. Charlie wishes to avoid court, so Bert arranges a meeting with Nora and Nicole. Nora argues that Charlie refused to respect Nicole's wishes to move back to Los Angeles and that Henry would prefer to stay with his mother rather than fly back and forth between coasts. Bert advises Charlie to drop his New York residency altogether, but a frustrated Charlie refuses and fires him. Using the first payout of his fellowship grant, Charlie hires Jay. The case moves to court, where Nora and Jay argue aggressively on behalf of their clients, leading to a series of
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s; Nora highlights Charlie's emotional distance and past infidelity, while Jay exaggerates Nicole's drinking habits and threatens criminal action for hacking Charlie's emails. Meanwhile, Nicole and Charlie remain friendly out of court and share time with Henry, who is increasingly annoyed with the back-and-forth. Disillusioned with the legal process, the pair decide to meet in private. However, their initially friendly discussion turns emotionally vicious; Nicole claims that Charlie has now fully merged with his own selfishness, and Charlie wishes death upon her. He then breaks down in tears and apologizes; Nicole comforts him. Soon after, they agree to relax their demands and reach an equal agreement to finalize the divorce, although Nora negotiates slightly better terms for Nicole, against the latter's wishes. A year later, Charlie's play enjoys a successful Broadway run, while Nicole has a new boyfriend and is nominated for an
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for directing an episode of her television series. Charlie informs Nicole that he has taken a residency at
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and will be living in Los Angeles full-time to be closer to Henry. Later, he discovers Henry reading Nicole's list of things she loves about Charlie that she had written down during counseling. Henry asks Charlie to read it aloud to him, and Charlie does so, becoming emotional as Nicole watches from afar. After a Halloween party that evening, Nicole offers to let Charlie take Henry home even though it is her night. Charlie walks out to his car carrying Henry, and they part ways once more.


Cast

Jasmine Cephas Jones Jasmine Cephas Jones (born July 21, 1989) is an American-British actress, singer, and producer, who originated the dual roles of Peggy Schuyler and Maria Reynolds in the Broadway stage musical ''Hamilton''. In 2020, Cephas Jones won a Primetime ...
, Mary Wiseman, Matthew Maher,
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, Raymond J. Lee, and
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appear as members of Nicole and Charlie's theater group.


Production

The premise for the film first came to Baumbach in 2016, while in post-production on ''
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''. He began to research the subject, and met with three-time collaborator Driver to discuss the role. In November 2017, it was announced Driver, Scarlett Johansson,
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,
Merritt Wever Merritt Carmen Wever (born August 11, 1980) is an American actress. She is known for starring as a perennially upbeat young nurse in ''Nurse Jackie'' (2009–2015), an intrepid widow in the Netflix period miniseries '' Godless'' (2017), and a de ...
and Azhy Robertson were set to star in the film.
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produced the film under his
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banner, and Netflix produced and distributed. In March 2018,
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joined the cast of the film, and in June 2018, it was announced that
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had also been added. Principal photography began on January 15, 2018, and lasted 47 days through April 2018, taking place in both New York City and Los Angeles. Speaking of writing the film following his divorce from actress
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, as well as his parents' divorce (which served as inspiration for his earlier film ''
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''), Baumbach said: Following the release of the film, Baumbach said, "I showed eighthe script and then I showed her the movie a little bit ago. She likes it a lot."


Music

The music is composed by
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in his second collaboration with Baumbach, after previously composing for ''
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'' (2017). The score was recorded at Newman Scoring Stage in the 20th Century Fox Studios, featuring a 40-piece chamber orchestra with limited instruments. The first track "What I Love About Nicole" was released as a lead single from the album on November 1, 2019, and the score was digitally released on November 15, 2019, followed by a physical release on December 13, 2019, by
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.


Release

''Marriage Story'' had its world premiere at the
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on August 29, 2019, and also screened at the
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on August 31, 2019, and the
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on September 8, 2019, where it was first runner-up for the
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. It also served as the Centerpiece selection at the
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on October 4, 2019, and the
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on October 6, 2019.
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gave it a
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in theatres beginning November 6, 2019, before streaming the film starting December 6, 2019.


Home media

''Marriage Story'' was released on
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and
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by
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on July 21, 2020.


Reception


Box office

Although Netflix does not publicly disclose the theatrical grosses of all of its films, ''
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'' estimated ''Marriage Story'' grossed around $160,000 from five theaters in its opening weekend (and a total $200,000 over its first five days). The site wrote that "normally, these (estimated) numbers would be disappointing," but "given the theaters and more limited seating, as well as awareness of imminent streaming access within the month" it was sufficient for Netflix. Playing at 16 theaters the following weekend, the film made an estimated $140,000, and then $340,000 from 85 theaters in its third. Expanding to 130 theaters in its fourth weekend of release the film made $360,000, for a month-long running total of $1.2 million. The following weekend, despite being released digitally onto Netflix starting the Friday, the film made an estimated $300,000 from 120 theaters, and then $120,000 from 80 theaters the following week. ''Marriage Story'' grossed an estimated $2 million in North America and $333,686 in other territories, for a worldwide total of $2.3 million.


Critical response

On
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, the film has an approval rating of based on reviews, with an average rating of . The website's critics consensus reads: "Observing a splintering union with compassion and expansive grace, the powerfully acted ''Marriage Story'' ranks among writer-director Noah Baumbach's best works." On
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, it has a weighted average score of 94 out of 100, based on 53 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". Critic
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of ''
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'' wrote, "At once funny, scalding, and stirring, built around two bravura performances of incredible sharpness and humanity, it's the work of a major film artist, one who shows that he can capture life in all its emotional detail and complexity — and, in the process, make a piercing statement about how our society now works."
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of ''
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'' praised the acting and Baumbach's screenplay, saying, "One wonders if Baumbach left references to ''
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'' or '' Two for the Road'' on the cutting-room floor, but either way, ''Marriage Story'' is a film that deserves to be mentioned in their company. It's devastating, essential, and destined to be remembered long after this awards cycle ends." In his review for ''
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'', Jon Frosch concurred, writing: "Other American films about divorce have portrayed this phenomenon — the legal process driving and shaping the couple's feelings rather than vice versa — but none with the force and clarity of this one ..It's also funny and, when you least expect it (and most need it), almost unbearably tender, thanks in large part to the sensational leads, who deliver the deepest, most alive and attuned performances of their careers." Rating the film 5 stars out of 5,
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of ''
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'' called it a "wonderfully sweet, sad and funny film" that serves as a "glorious laugh-out-loud, cry-out-loud portrait of a relationship in its death throes" and praised the performances of the cast. Writing for ''
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'',
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gave the film 3.5 stars out of 4 and praised Johansson and Driver as the "two-person fulcrum around which this funny-sad, happy-harrowing movie revolves." In a mixed review, '' GQ''s David Levesley opined that the film was "fundamentally, a good piece of cinema", but disliked the unacknowledged upper-class privilege that the characters possessed, commenting: "The world of third-wave coffee, delicatessens and Upper West Side therapy has been done to death and does not speak to as much of the human condition as the people wading through it themselves seem to think." Armond White of ''
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'' also panned the film's bourgeois themes and the lead actors' performances, writing: "This story is really about class rivalry clouded by a sex-and-cinema surface. The obnoxious sentimentality of Marriage Story forces a filmmaker's self-righteousness on us ... It is Johansson and Driver who suffer Baumbach's superficiality. This is his least-bad movie only because the quality of the performances f the supporting castis improved."


Internet memes

Despite its tone and themes, ''Marriage Story'' has spawned
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s. According to ''
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'', a meme of Adam Driver punching a wall during Charlie and Nicole's argument scene has contributed to "re-contextualizing Charlie and Nicole's fight into something light and silly". Driver punching a wall has been repurposed to represent general arguments over trivial matters in which a participant becomes angry and overreacts.


Accolades

''Marriage Story'' was chosen by the
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, the
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, and ''Time'' magazine as one of the ten best films of the year. The film received a leading six nominations at the
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, including Best Motion Picture – Drama, winning one award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture. The film received eight nominations at the
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, three nominations at the
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for the performances of Driver, Johansson, and Dern, five nominations at the
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, and six nominations at the
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. ''Time'' Magazine's annual best performances of the year list by
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listed Driver as the third best film acting performance of 2019. Laura Dern won the Best Supporting Actress Award at the
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.


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