If I Were You
2012 · Movie · R · 115 min · ★ 6.6 · 21% critics
A married woman tries to outsmart her husband’s much younger affair partner, but the rivalry takes an odd turn when both end up in a scrappy staging of King Lear. What follows blends jealousy, role-playing, and messy personal fallout in a darkly comic setup.
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Details
- Years
- 2012
- Release date
- 2013-03-15
- Language
- English
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 115 min
- Max quality
- HD
- Critic score
- 21/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.6/10 (39 votes)
About
You might like this if you enjoy messy relationship comedies with dark, awkward energy, especially if titles like Sally4Ever or You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger appeal to you; Not for you if infidelity-driven stories are a turnoff.
Pros: offbeat love-triangle setup; dark comic premise; theater-world awkwardness | Cons: uncomfortable relationship dynamics; broad amateur-play chaos; niche tone
Themes
- woman director
Cast & crew
Marcia Gay Harden
as Madelyn
Leonor Watling
as Lucy
Aidan Quinn
as Derek
Joseph Kell
as Paul
Michael Therriault
as Rainer (Director)
Gary Piquer
as Keith
- BJ
Bethany Jillard
as Cordelia
Elizabeth Whitmere
as Goneril
Claire Brosseau
as Regan
Patrick Garrow
as Edmund
Directed by Joan Carr-Wiggin