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Review

It seems we've been down this road before. The characters look familiar, as well as the conversations, the story, the outcome. Wasn't it Woody Allen? No, it was Nora Ephron, right? Or was it Rob Reiner? In this Snippets from a Marriage, a husband and wife, Ben (Willis) and Katie (Pfeiffer), narrate the route to their current break-up. Ben's a writer who's a fun-loving sort, except when he's around Katie, who's compulsive and hates being the parental figure all the time. The story follows through numerous flashbacks their meeting, marriage, parenthood, careers, friends, misunderstandings; all of which pit them against each other on the road to divorce. Willis and Pfeiffer give very sincere performances, almost enough to make you really care what happens to them. But the writing is sparse, and the bittersweet film never delivers when it should. There's a few cute scenes and a number of laughs, but this is all the fun of going through one's own separation.