The Private Lives of Pippa Lee - Movie Trailer

This has to be one of the strangest plots I have ever seen.

This movie is about Pippa Lee a seemingly perfect wife married with two children. The people who know her has no idea of her troubled past that is riddled with abuse, depression and drug abuse. Pippa was raised in a home where her mother hated her, she ran away to a her aunt Kat who is a lesbian. Her aunt saw her and introduced her to her world where she used in BDSM lesbian porn videos. Until she met her publisher husband twenty years her senior, who provided her stability for the first time in her life. But at fifty she started to question her life when her husband moves them to a retirement village. Pippa meets a man that is younger than her they become friends at first after a while have a affair. During the whole thing she relives her past trying to figure out who she truly is.

THE PRIVATE LIVES OF PIPPA LEE

The Private lives of Pippa Lee is based on a novel written by Rebecca Miller. The cast is filled with a diversity of actors most of them award winners and nominee's.

Pippa Lee is played by Robin Wright Penn who is best known for her role in Forrest Gump where she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress. Pippa's character is a trouble woman in her fifties married to a man twenty years her senior. Robin has that sad look about her as if there is something more than meets the eye and that suits the role perfectly.

Blake Lively is in the role of Pippa Lee in her younger years when she runs away from home and gets involved in all sorts of trouble. Blake Lively starred in the movie The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants in 2005 but is more known for her more recent role in the tv series Gossip Girl. Blake is a beautiful woman with lots of sex appeal with a vulnerable look to her. Her role in the movie is rather disturbing the things she had to do and went through takes talent and courage, it is not for everyone.

Alan Arkin plays Herb Lee Pippa's husband who is a accomplished publisher. Alan Arkin is a accomplished actor with 24 nominations and 19 wins one of those a Oscar for his best performance in a supporting role in Little Miss Sunshine.

This is the second film in matter of weeks that feature Mara Bello. Her role in The Private Lives of Pippa Lee is much more 'dark' than in The Yellow Handkerchief, she plays Suky Sarkissian Pippa Lee's abusive mother.

Keanu Reeves is in the role of Chris Nadeau Pippa Lee's neighbor and lover. Keanu Reeves known for the Matrix is rather a stoic actor he reminds me of a robot. Not sure how he would play the lover of Pippa and is responsible for reawakening of her passions.

Then there is Kat, the lesbian aunt who takes in Pippa after she run away from home. She is played by Julianne Moore, they could not get anyone better for this role she is a great actress and has the ability to make you believe she is the person she is playing in the film. That is why it is not surprising that she has been Nominated 45 times four of those for the Oscars and 38 wins.

Kat introduces Pippa to Gigi Lee played by Monica Bellucci a socialite. Monica Bellucci is one of those woman who will still turn heads at 60 she is graceful and beautiful Italian actress who has played many roles in her life including Magdalen in Mel Gibson's Passion of the Christ.

They even brought in Winona Ryder who has not been in a major role in years as Pippa's best friend Sandra Dulles. Who has her own troubles life and is in awe of Pippa's 'perfect' life. After Girl Interrupted and her shop lifting problem it would be hard to cast her otherwise. She suits the role of a heartbroken or troubled young woman.

 The Private Lives of Pippa Lee is not for everyone. If you have a aversion to bondage and lesbianism you should not watch it. The whole movie is set in a dramatic atmosphere and is not a light hearted movie that would leave you smiling. If you enjoy dramas, you will enjoy this.