Based on a '50s pulp novel, Married Life takes us back to a time when men were men and marriages were built to last — unless the men were trying to poison their wives so they could run off with their mistresses. Chris Cooper and Pierce Brosnan star as chums battling for the love of a younger woman (Rachel McAdams); Patricia Clarkson slips back into Far From Heaven-era housewife mode as the poisonee in question. 'Til death!