Best depictions of a married couple?

Cafe Society
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They don’t have to be legally or technically married, just a long term couple. This is seemingly one of the hardest things to authentically capture on film by how many times I don’t buy a supposed couple.

In Beetlejuice there is scene when the newly dead married couple the Maitlands are navigating the afterlife bureaucracy that makes me laugh everytime where they are chatting back and forth and explaining the handbook’s rules to each other. I can’t stress how perfect I thought that was.
So I was looking for similar pefect captures of how long term couples relate.

2

Rob and Laura Petrie.

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On TV - Eric and Tami Taylor from Friday Night Lights by a wide margin.

4

Dan and Rosanne Conner were a very convincing blue collar couple.

5

The pregnant police chief and her husband in the film FARGO really sticks in my head as realistic.

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Alan Rickman’s and Emma Thompson’s characters from Love Actually.

How’dja like your eggs, Norm?

Classic line.

7

My Favorite Husband on radio and tv.

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Ingmar Bergman’s “Scenes From a Marriage”. No joke. His other movies have not held up over time IMHO but this one is the real deal. According to Wikipedia, this movie actually increased Swedish divorce rates after it came out, and I can believe it.

9

**Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Make Way for Tomorrow**

(you didn’t specify “happy”)

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It’ll depend on the actors and the performance, of course, but I thought Shakespeare did a great job with Hotspur and his wife in Henry IV part 1.

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Dr. Robert Hartley & Emily Hartley on The Bob Newhart Show.
John & Olivia Walton as well as Grandpa & Grandma Walton on The Waltons
Tim & Jill Taylor on * Home Improvement.*

12

Jackie and Annie O’Shea in Waking Ned Devine was my first thought.

13

Second that one. They made a great couple.

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Nick and Nora Charles (at least for their era).

More modern, Pete and Sue Brockman from Outnumbered.

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Nick and Nor…

Dammit!

16

I like Mike and Frankie from The Middle. They’re like our new Dan & Rosanne.

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Gomez and Morticia. My perfect idyll. From childhood. <sigh!>

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Any movie with Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon as a married couple, but especially “Mrs. Miniver”.

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I always thought the Weir parents from Freaks and Geeks were a good, realistic depiction of a married couple struggling to understand the world their children are growing up in.

Listening to Squeezebox.
You know those Sex Pistols? They spit on their audience!

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I’ll go with Nick and Nora Charles too. I think it would be hella fun to be half of a rich couple back in the 30’s. Swanning about in nightclubs, guzzlling martinis with no debiltating hangovers, exchanging witty quips with my witty husband, interesting murder mysteries to solve - what could be better, lol?