[Ready2Transform]

"Crazy Stupid Love" is on the list.  That opening set of scenes where Steve Carrell is BD'ed and jumps out of the car hits wayyyy too close to home! 

And of course, all of the Star Trek movies, since MLC'ers are from outer space!   

[trusting]

I think we had a thread about this awhile back.  Shrek 3 and American Beauty smack of MLC.

[Dontgiveup]

Yes, maybe Old Pilot can combine threads.

[forthetrees]

If you´re okay with foreign films: El hijo de la novia  is a CLASSIC mlc but with a happier ending than what might be expected.

[Wed2Him?Whatever.]

I don't have one about MLC to recommend but I saw one over the weekend any LBS struggling with unforgiveness should see.

"To End All Wars"

In a nutshell, it is about prisoners of war trying to survive a labor camp.  The conditions are horrendous, as you might imagine, and the treatment is cruel and brutal.  But there's one character in particular who inexplicably seems able to rise above it all; I won't give spoilers because I really want you to check this movie out if you ever have the chance.  I will just say that there's a crossroads moment, if you want to call it that, where the prisoners must decide if they want to let it go and forgive, or begin a conspiracy towards retaliation.  Of course the camp is divided on the matter and two separate factions emerge.  I have to say, it's just a beautiful movie (though extremely difficult to watch at times) with the message that Yes, you CAN forgive ANYTHING!!

[Anjae]

Don't remember if anyone had mentioned it before. Closer by Mike Nichols, with Jude Law, Julia Roberts, Clive Owen and Natalie Portman. I'm not sure if it is about MLC or just affairs and their consequences but it is pretty good. And it revolves around the illusion, deceitfulness and lies that surround these sort of situations.

[Ntmalu]

American Beauty is a definite but I don't like how it ended.. Very sad.. And Crazy Stupid Love.. I am dying to see new Meryl Streep- Tommy Lee Jones movie..

It's Complicated was hilarious.. especially part where they are in bedroom and Alec Baldwin hiding behind lap top... LMAO... I gotta see it again..

[Anjae]

The tv series Homeland http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1796960/. It is not about MLC but Carrie, the lead female character and CIA agent, is bipolar. Her disease is showed without filters on the show. Think some of us could see our MLCers in her. Especially during all the time she keeps a front from everyone at work. She is fine when on meds but totally looses it if she forgets to takes, or runs out of, them. Was very surprised to see a bipolar character portrait the way she is. Very well done, in my opinion. Season 2 started last weekend (September 30). It is worthy to watch series 1 in a row and catch up with series 2.

[limitless]

I don't know if anyone has ever mentioned it, but "Breaking Bad" is as MLC as you can get (without the affair - at least as far as I have seen).

Thanks to the wonders of Netflix - my D22 and I started watching it.  We are more than 1/2 through the 2nd season.

The protagonist is a brilliant, but otherwise underachieving Science teacher - who, for some reason, also worked at a carwash!!!???!!!  He is very meek and seemingly taken advantage of and/or for granted by everyone in his life.  His wife is pregnant with an unplanned child.  They have a high school aged son with disabilities.  At the onset of the show - he is pretty much given a death sentence - as he is diagnosed with lung cancer.  He keeps this information to himself, by the way.  There is so much that he keeps to himself, in this show.  In order to provide for his family - he starts cooking chrystal meth with one of his ex-students.  He later begins to feel alive again - through the excitement, danger, and wealth of being a drug dealer.  I know...not so MLC - but stick with me on this one.

He disappears for hours/days at a time....never telling his wife where he is going or what he is doing.  His lies are so bad....she knows something is going on.  But, he won't tell her.  He won't let her in.  He is forced, finally, to admit he is ill - in order to ease her suspicions...as that truth is "easier" to share than the other secret life he lives.

This man lies...lies....lies...and then lies some more.  What I found interesting is my D22's take on the whole thing.  My D feels that the wife is a real b&tch and really dislikes the character.  I have stated that the wife is so upset and sick of the lies.....that she cannot trust or believe her spouse....and it is driving her to do many of the things that she does.  But, my D doesn't see it, at all.  My D thinks that I just no longer like men!

Granted the main character is the protagonist.  And, the show focuses on HIS story...and HIS motives.  I guess, being from where I've been - his constant lies about EVERYTHING really bother me....a lot!

The show is very well done....very intense...and violent, of course.  Worth watching.

limitless

[Doc Hudson]

Groundhog Day. 

Bill Murray's character is stuck in time until he grows up.  At first, he is confused and, then, he (erroneously) deduces that there are no consequences for his behavior and goes on a party spree.  Only after he truly begins to empathize with the world and grows as a person is he allowed to continue forward in his life.