Blue Valentine (2010)

Blue Valentine rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb7.3/10· 223K votes

Rotten Tomatoes87%

Metacritic81%

TMDb6.961/10· 4K votes

With 87% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 7.3/10 on IMDb and 81/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been very positive.

About Blue Valentine

Dean and Cindy live a quiet life in a modest neighborhood. They appear to have the world at their feet at the outset of the relationship. However, his lack of ambition and her retreat into self-absorption cause potentially irreversible cracks in their marriage.

Cast of Blue Valentine

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  Ryan Gosling

  as Dean

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  Michelle Williams

  as Cindy

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  John Doman

  as Jerry

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  Mike Vogel

  as Bobby

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  Ben Shenkman

  as Dr. Feinberg

• J

  Jen Jones

  as Gramma

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  Maryann Plunkett

  as Glenda

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  Faith Wladyka

  as Frankie

• M

  Marshall Johnson

  as Marshall

• J

  James Benatti

  as Jamie

• B

  Barbara Troy

  as Jo

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  Carey Westbrook

  as Charley

Blue Valentine facts

Budget

$1M

Box office

$15.4M

Our take on Blue Valentine

Derek Cianfrance's 2010 drama charts the relationship of Dean and Cindy, a couple in a modest neighborhood who seem to have everything ahead of them when they first fall in love. Yet his lack of ambition and her drift into self-absorption open cracks in the marriage that may never close. Cianfrance intercuts tender beginnings with painful present-day erosion, so you feel the romance and its unraveling at once. This is a raw, intimate study of how love curdles, quiet and emotionally exposed rather than plotted. It's for viewers who want honest, unglamorous portraits of couples, and who don't mind a film that leaves an ache behind.