“[Rod Dreher] My pal Victor Morton, who runs the Right-Wing Film Geek blog, remembered the NRO evisceration of “The Hours”[http://www.nationalreview.com/dreher/dreher012403.asp] that I wrote earlier this year, and wrote to tell me I had to go see The Secret Lives of Dentists. Said Victor, “It’s the anti-Hours.”

He’s right. My wife and I saw Dentists last night (happily married, for the record), loved it, and thought it one of the most truthful portrayals of marriage and family life we’ve ever seen on film. Whereas The Hours seemed to extol the primacy of individual happiness over obligation to family and others, Dentists shows the value of self-sacrifice for the sake of children within an unhappy marriage — and why marriages depend on grace and the willingness to forgive to survive. Read Victor’s illuminating review for details.