BY LORRAINE DUFFY MERKL Something magical can happen when you see the same ol’ same ol’ with different eyes. And so goes the theme of the movie “The Lovers.” Long-married Southern Californians, “Mary” (Debra Winger) and “Michael” (Tracy Letts), lost interest in one another, well, who remembers when? The husband and wife barely regard each other and have already moved on both emotionally and physically. Although they still reside together, each has taken younger as well as needy/demanding lovers; writer “Robert” (Aidan Gillen), and dancer “Lucy” (Melora Walters), each want their married paramours to leave their spouses. The wedded couple is down with that plan and promises to do so as soon as their adult son “Joel” (Tyler Ross) visits; this way they can finalize the decision as a family.
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