Related: The real midlife crisis confronting many Americans In another study, the older the participants, the older they reported their midlife crisis to have occurred.
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David Brooks The phrase almost completes itself: Midlife … crisis.
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I guess a midlife crisis is considered a medical condition.
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The 1969 moon landing precipitates a midlife crisis for Philip.
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You can now have your midlife crisis without embarrassing yourself.
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"I'm 37, and I'm having a midlife crisis," he said.
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"My midlife crisis was, like, a party period," she says.
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Click here to view original GIFYahoo is having a midlife crisis.
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Savvy political strategy or the government's version of a midlife crisis?
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"I think Tamar is going through a midlife crisis," he says.
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You could call it a midlife crisis or, rather, midlife clarity.
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They must have had a midlife crisis earlier than they expected.
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A few nights ago, I had the midlife crisis dream again.
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Q: It's rumored that Brad has been undergoing a midlife crisis.
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It's 100 percent midlife crisis men because this is what Tesla says.
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His goatee and attraction to young blondes spells out: classic midlife crisis.
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It is not a midlife crisis so much as a lifelong passion.
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We're looking for a savior to rescue us from our midlife crisis.
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I was going through a bit of a cliché midlife-crisis situation.
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But this I know: I'm not going to have a midlife crisis.
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The easiest way to describe it would be I think a midlife crisis.
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For one thing, it's hard enough deciding when the midlife crisis should occur.
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His two sons had enlisted, and he felt a midlife crisis coming on.
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Suddenly Uncle Basil's midlife crisis truck is a blessing rather than an embarrassment.
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If this is a midlife crisis then honestly bring on the year 2071.
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Sheehy's understanding of the midlife crisis had nothing to do with sports cars.
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"Writing this book cured my midlife crisis," Calhoun reveals, hearteningly, near the end.
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That's what Yeezus was about, when it wasn't a midlife crisis fever dream.
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Somehow these anonymous portraits, products of a fertile midlife crisis, avoid being merely exploitative.
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It was gonna be the thing that lifted her out of this midlife crisis.
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But does that make the midlife crisis real, or just an intuitively appealing phantom?
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Midlife-crisis stuff: All of a sudden, boomers have more time and disposable income.
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I used to think a midlife crisis was a problem manufactured by privileged suburbanites.
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But for this petulant group, another midlife crisis is always lurking around the corner.
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And I wasn't quite old enough for a midlife crisis (if it even exists).
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"I feel like it's time to just go for a full midlife crisis," he said.
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Lee termed the sell-off a "midlife crisis" for the market and not a recession.
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It's a midlife crisis where he, spoiler, doesn't really learn that much about himself, maybe?
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Instead, Spencer simply tells him that he also once had a midlife crisis of faith.
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John Cho is going through a midlife crisis – just not the kind you would expect.
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It's not a midlife crisis, not a quarter-life crisis, but an entering-adulthood crisis.
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" He laughs, noting wryly that "the millennial midlife crisis will be one for the ages.
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She cheekily tweeted a link this week about extreme athleticism as the new midlife crisis.
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Jackie (Pamela Anderson) is a burnt-out AuraCycle instructor in the midst of a midlife crisis.
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No gasoline-powered sports cars to get you through your midlife crisis, thank you very much.
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Is this the nerd's version of a midlife crisis or Google's in-disguise man of steel?
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TF: I suppose I was going through a midlife crisis, an alcohol crisis, at that moment.
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And like many middle-aged men, he appears to be suffering something of a midlife crisis.
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Because he's having a midlife crisis post-Wall Street and combat careers, and because she's hot.
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Jacques did use the term "midlife crisis" in a paper that predated Passages by 10 years.
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"There have been so many upgrades to my life, relative to my midlife crisis," he said.
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My sister-in-law pointed out, not incorrectly, that I might be suffering a midlife crisis.
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"In a midlife crisis people do irrational things and they do them at inopportune times," Glazer said.
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Visually appealing and whimsical to some, the Tesla Roadster represented a gauche billionaire's midlife crisis to others.
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The capitalistic driven over-ticketing, pompous catering of favors and privileges," a "crotchless dot com midlife crisis.
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Lester (Kevin Spacey) is an advertising executive in the suburbs who is going through a midlife crisis.
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It seems like for my entire adult life Tom Cruise has been going through a midlife crisis.
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On top of that, the main characters are going through a midlife crisis and their marriage is collapsing.
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Reached for comment by CNBC, Shteyngart shrugs at the idea that he is coping with a midlife crisis.
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" Ms. Hulbert, the author of "Off the Charts," called Mr. Chandler's turning point a "kind of midlife crisis.
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Chopsticks down, I choked out a confession about a failed relationship that ended in an early midlife crisis.
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He's lost interest in the church, and his royal life in general, as he enters his midlife crisis.
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"I feel like what I've gone through in my life is akin to a midlife crisis," he says.
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Yeah, I'm insecure and I'm in a midlife crisis that I'll grow out of in about 40 years.
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Even if it does not cure every midlife crisis, his book may change preconceptions about the dryness of philosophy.
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"I already went through a lot of phases I think people go through in their midlife crisis," he said.
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The photographer Mark Hartman had recently turned 35, and he found himself going through something like a midlife crisis.
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I was making close to $2240,25 a year in IT/nonprofit, and had a premature midlife crisis at 123.
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The Entertainment Weekly review calls the album a "midlife crisis record," but if anything, that's a badge of honor.
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The story of the midlife crisis begins with Gail Sheehy, one of the pioneering journalists of second-wave feminism.
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Ronson's midlife crisis also spurred a move back to the Upper West Side, where he is buying an apartment.
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The midlife crisis is alive and well, and it hits especially hard after age 47, according to new research.
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He's a successful investigative journalist known for his scathing pen, who's experiencing a bit of an early midlife crisis.
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"It was kind of a midlife crisis," said Mr. Gillette, who described himself as a bit of an Anglophile.
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Raposa: All those high-paid midlife crisis-ing chickens coming home to roost, and occasionally pop out to the catcher.
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The last time was after I had a midlife crisis at the age of 24 after [The Coup's] second album.
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For now I'm planning to have a consciously undertaken "midlife crisis" in writing, and try to figure out what's next.
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It effectively justifies rival T-Mobile's tongue-in-cheek claim earlier this year that Verizon is having a midlife crisis.
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The classic midlife crisis — buying a sports car or a boat — may not be as prevalent as it once was.
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In the decade after his book appeared, the backlash against feminism dovetailed with Levinson's misogynist account of the midlife crisis.
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I'm not just stuck — I'm wasting my time navel gazing about a midlife crisis when there's suffering all around me.
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My mother died of cancer after a yearlong battle, during which my father had a midlife crisis and an affair.
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Midlife Crisis Tropical Vacation is out soon from Anchorless Records and you can pre-order the digital release right here.
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And suddenly, Downsizing is largely about his aimlessness, his midlife crisis, and the hapless way he seeks direction from other people.
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"I'd say 60 percent of them thought maybe I was having a midlife crisis," Bean wrote in his 1998 book Apollo.
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Arguably there is no distinct midlife crisis, just crises that occur during midlife but might equally have occurred before or after.
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When I had made more money than I needed for myself or my family, I underwent a kind of midlife crisis.
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Psychoanalysts, sociologists and economists diagnosed the midlife crisis from the 1960s onwards, but it stretches back through Dante's wood to antiquity.
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After experiencing a "midlife crisis" at the age of 27, Hudgens says she now feels more confident than ever at 30.
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Richie's midlife crisis comes when, after launching hitting rock bottom, he hears the New York Dolls perform in a collapsing building.
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This is definitely better than "Get Lit," at the very least, so the Will Smith Midlife Crisis is over... for now.
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This means that those of us who were fit kids may have an advantage training for that midlife crisis CrossFit competition.
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And read our profile of the food celebrity Alton Brown, who recently published what our reporter calls a "midlife-crisis" cookbook.
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Here, Ms. Parker is Frances, who, in a gender twist on the stereotypical scenario, is the one having the midlife crisis.
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Recently at a journalism conference, I told the writer Jonathan Rauch that I thought I was suffering from a midlife crisis.
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When a midlife crisis meant swapping your hatchback for a sports car, preferably red, or taking up a boozy, illicit affair?
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That sparkless meeting did nothing to enhance Mr. Harris's self-confidence, as he was in the middle of a midlife crisis.
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"There's a midlife crisis with a low point around age 50, which was my low point of happiness, too," he says.
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More such breakups are inevitable — after all, many tech founders are only now reaching the age for the proverbial midlife crisis.
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With a found-footage aesthetic, Patrick Brice's horror sequel stars Mark Duplass as a Craigslist serial killer with a midlife crisis.
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I'd been divorced a few years, I was living upstairs from the bar I started working at when I was 973, I was at least ten pounds overweight in an uncomfortable way, what I think of as my midlife crisis started two years later, but I didn't even have the energy to have a midlife crisis at the time.
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Chambers said the tech industry as a whole is facing a midlife crisis and needs to consider how it is impacting society.
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Now, apparently in the throes of a midlife crisis, he sat looking at his beer and imagined himself in the Minneapolis newspapers.
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Investing smaller windfalls, like a four-figure tax refund or five-figure check from selling a midlife-crisis car, deserve thoughtful consideration.
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Not interested in the mom who's bored with her husband and mired in a midlife crisis because she can't have it all?
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I mean the midlife crisis story, in which a man suddenly finds himself shriven of the beliefs that have hitherto defined him.
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The easiest thing is to put it down to midlife crisis, but that, of course, minimizes the pain he was responsible for.
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I'm a long way from my midlife crisis, and I don't know about you, but I'm good with my future sports car.
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High-concept science fiction prestige drama, by way of a midlife-crisis family drama, with some bizarre picaresque road-movie adventure thrown in.
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A few months ago he bought a cherry red Camaro convertible," which his "22-year-old college intern" told him "''screams midlife crisis!
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Then, in response to a midlife crisis and the political instability of 2016, his values shift, and he buys a collection of watches.
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Our friend, and brilliant comedian Chris Locke, plays a man who stares into the void, hears our song and experiences a midlife crisis.
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After a midlife crisis, he founded Autism Rocks and became a part-time concert promoter, at one point booking his personal favorite, Prince.
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Now, the old quarterback is experiencing a midlife crisis in the lower rungs of football that is as intriguing as it is desperate.
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More remarkable, though, is how the film and Ms. Whelan, without falsification, turn an extreme form of midlife crisis into a heartening tale.
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I had chalked it up to some sort of midlife crisis, but perhaps it's too many years of too little touch and affection.
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The middle of the TV season—aka the start of the new year—usually signals the closest thing television has to a midlife crisis.
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These days, Pitt is actually working on a sculpture — he admitted it in the interview — and he's grappling with the World's Worst Midlife Crisis.
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"People told me, 'If you're having a midlife crisis, get a sports car or a boat — you can sell those later,'" Mr. Stiert said.
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On the sidelines, Diane (Molly Shannon) searches for independence while her husband sits in prison, and Dallas (Talia Balsam) wrestles with a midlife crisis.
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As we try to reconstruct a new life course for a new world, there is something appealing about the concept of the midlife crisis.
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There are several ways to describe what happens to him — as a midlife crisis, a psychological breakdown, a political awakening or a religious reckoning.
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Its author, Ada Calhoun, ended up writing an entire book on the subject: "Why We Can't Sleep: Women's New Midlife Crisis" (out this month).
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What the theorists thought The psychoanalyst Elliot Jaques, who coined the term "midlife crisis" in 1965, thought it reflected the dawning recognition of one's mortality.
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Bishé is luminous but underserved by the long-suffering-wife role, and the episode finds Michael's tedious midlife crisis way more absorbing than it is.
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The trailer focuses on Pied Piper CEO Richard Hendricks, who appears to be going through some kind of midlife crisis that includes leaving Pied Piper (!).
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The family had jokingly referred to his embrace of healthy eating as a "midlife crisis," she told the courtroom, drawing a smile from the defendant.
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Once he was certain that Michael had joined the foursome's side, Chidi obliged in providing him an Ethics 101 course, initiating Michael's brief midlife crisis.
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But when she turned 40, she had a kind of midlife crisis that included a new, intense desire for more variety in their sex life.
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When the show starts, Zoe is in the middle of a transformative period, moving across the world for what looks like her mom's first midlife crisis.
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The movies are fraternal twins, a pair of deceptively astringent women's midlife crisis movies set on opposite sides of a divide between having children and not.
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It's been a lot like a midlife crisis — except that (I kept thinking) my own midlife might have happened as long as half my life ago.
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As for the "groupies," it seems to be a bit of a midlife crisis that some women are indulging in, if that doesn't sound too judgmental.
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Everyone in Fleishman Is in Trouble, whether it's the Fleishmans or their friends or the narrator, appears to be having a midlife crisis of some sort.
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"Juliet, Naked" — in which, just so you know, there is no nudity and nobody named Juliet — marks a milestone in the interminable Generation-X midlife crisis.
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A generation of male scholars and writers labored to transform the midlife crisis into a misogynist ideal for men bored by their cars and their wives.
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In an implicit rebuke of Passages, Levinson explained how a woman's "growing assertiveness and freedom" in middle age were partly responsible for the male midlife crisis.
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That is, until Edith's 50-year-old son, Roger (Jason Watkins), leaves his wife, quits his job and plants his midlife crisis squarely back at home.
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"Cyprus Avenue," which opened on Monday night under the confrontational direction of Vicky Featherstone, is an unsparing study of a midlife crisis with a body count.
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The everyday poison known as toxic masculinity becomes dangerously easy to swallow in "Linda Vista," Tracy Letts's inspired, ruthless take on the classic midlife-crisis comedy.
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For example, one time there was a group of Scandinavian middle-aged men on the patio that were on some sort of 'midlife crisis' trip to Amsterdam.
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"My 20163-year-old asks me if politics was my midlife crisis," she told me between knocking doors in Coppell, where she's lived since the early 2000s.
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" Zosia Mamet: "I also think it's something that just happens in life, and I feel like it's what sets up for a midlife crisis, in a way.
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He stayed silent throughout the internet's mockery of what is clearly a midlife crisis tattoo, but now he wants the world to know that he is fine.
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The album's most intense eruption is delivered by Andre 219, speaking from the wilderness of his forties, and it cleaves Blonde in two, like a midlife crisis.
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Trek does have a way of rehabilitating cynical Hollywood men at the midlife crisis stage; just look at Seth Macfarlane's surprisingly earnest Next Generation homage, The Orville.
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Much has been made of the midlife crisis, often portrayed as the clichéd sports-car-driving silver fox with the shiny young girlfriend in the passenger seat.
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But it sure does seem to say "midlife crisis"—both for Musk himself and whomever ends up buying these bad boys off eBay in a couple years.
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At that age, I could no more relate to the milquetoast individuals in other French textbooks than I could to, say, someone going through a midlife crisis.
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Schmidt is herself convinced that the "midlife crisis" as we know it is fully and completely Sheehy's own idea, and that it emerged organically from feminist circles.
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Few of my peers claim to experience a "midlife crisis," and the kinds of masculine excess at work in Levinson's texts are thankfully in disrepute right now.
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Its cargo included a Tesla Roadster — which now looks like a sign of Musk's midlife crisis — and a digital copy of the Foundation trilogy by Isaac Asimov.
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Right in the middle of all the accessories was the main event: An electric toothbrush that looked like the midlife crisis version of my current electric toothbrush.
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If you're in your forties and feel vaguely unhappy, being told this is midlife crisis is almost mollifying; there's some satisfaction in just giving it a name.
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Growing up, I knew about the midlife crisis — or, as I thought about it, the reason why our neighbor grew a beard and got a much-younger girlfriend.
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In most versions of the suburban male midlife crisis story, the protagonist comes by our sympathy as if it were a birthright or a secular manifestation of grace.
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The film is yet another ode to the restorative magic of wine country sunshine, which apparently also has the power to expose the story's egregious midlife-crisis clichés.
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"Death of the Liberal Class," a muddle of a play by Robert Lyons at the New Ohio Theater, tries to find bigger themes in a male schlub's midlife crisis.
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The Miata is one of my all-time favorite cars — in summer anyway — the kind of midlife crisis car you'd buy if you had an extra $33,000 lying around.
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Studies show the great majority of people believe in the reality of the so-called "midlife crisis," and almost half of adults over 21965 claim to have had one.
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He has a condition that causes him to age more slowly than others, but on the cusp of his 440th birthday he appears to be suffering a midlife crisis.
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After a successful career as a United States attorney and criminal defender, Bill ten Boom, Dutch in origin, all-American in instinct, is having a Force 12 midlife crisis.
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As her mother helms the monarchy, her father has a midlife crisis and her brother grapples with the responsibilities of being an heir, Anne is busy just enjoying herself.
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The recent market sell-off was not the start of a longer-term bear market, but rather a temporary "midlife crisis," veteran wealth manager Larry Glazer told CNBC on Tuesday.
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Inevitably, someone at your hostel will be having a midlife crisis, and chances are they'll have some shit to talk through, every night, around a table covered in incense ash.
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The first film plays as the story of a man in a midlife crisis who is seeking out the excitement from his youth, but he realizes family is more important.
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There's the mother-son tale, the politico-cultural kaleidoscopic survey, accounts of Faye's coming-of-age, Samuel's adolescence and his subsequent early midlife crisis, along with other odds and ends.
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Erica Strange (Erin Karpluk), a smart, sexy and underachieving 32-year-old, finds her world irrevocably changed when she seeks treatment for a premature midlife crisis from a roguish therapist.
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If "Here and Now" never becomes anything more than an interesting failure, the Bayer-Boatwright patriarch's rich-white-guy midlife crisis will surely deserve a healthy share of the blame.
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In the years after Passages made Sheehy a household name, a group of men launched a campaign against the book that would forever alter the meaning of the midlife crisis.
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His version of the midlife crisis emerged directly from these concerns: At midlife, he explained, men grew tired of their breadwinner role and sought new paths of exploration and fulfillment.
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I'm a 73-year-old man with a family who actually graduated from college and law school and is suffering from a midlife crisis that reveals itself in recurring nightmares.
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The midlife crisis is alive and well — and it hits especially hard at age after age 47, according to new research from David Blanchflower, an economics professor at Dartmouth College.
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Through the filter of bone-dry comedy, The Santa Clarita Diet approaches cannibalism as a test of marital bonds, not unlike any other midlife crisis that makes spouses feel like strangers.
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WATCH THIS: Gilmore Girls: Alexis Bledel, Lauren Graham Preview Revival, Lorelai's Midlife Crisis Luke's apartment, which once served as his father's office, comes in at a much lower price of $171,000.
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If the worst poker players in the world (Cuomo and De Blasio) hadn&apost had their bluff called, Mr. Bezos&aposs midlife crisis would have cost NY taxpayers another $3 billion.
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" In a February, 2011, e-mail to Aronson, Hamilton said that Gunn had experienced "a bit of a midlife crisis," adding, "We are friends, but I am pursuing this adoption solo.
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In 2014, seized by what he says his wife still calls a midlife crisis, he left academia for a two-year fellowship on the policy-planning staff at the State Department.
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WHY WE CAN'T SLEEPWomen's New Midlife CrisisBy Ada Calhoun It took three nights for me to realize that "Why We Can't Sleep: Women's New Midlife Crisis" was not ideal bedtime reading.
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One study found reporting a midlife crisis was not associated with recently experiencing divorce, job loss or death of a loved one, and was primarily linked to having a history of depression.
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The students I fell in with at the language institute were young, out of college, still in college, peripatetic men and women, some in a midlife crisis, others in a quarterlife one.
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But at some point, the midlife crisis hits and you realize your time is half over and that the work on your project is going to end, whether you've finished or not.
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Even in midlife crisis mode, Bobby has an ease and confidence about him that Chuck cannot achieve on his best day — and he's not having anything close to his best day lately.
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Rushmore would cast Bill Murray as Herman Blume, who sees something of himself in Max Fischer, because it's the nature of a midlife crisis to turn a man back into a boy.
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Nigel Mills copped the iconic time-traveling whip of Back to the Future fame for £22,000 [$29,000], presumably in some midlife crisis-induced attempt to turn the clock back on his life.
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The next day, I get a text from him saying that he was going through a midlife crisis and he shouldn't be hanging out with girls a similar age to his son.
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Here's what you want to see if you're with the family... Directed by Nicole Holofcener, The Land of Steady Habits stars Ben Mendelsohn as a man in the throes of a midlife crisis.
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We reported a while ago—quite sensibly, we think, considering he released an EDM single—that Will Smith's Midlife Crisis (good band name by the way, if anyone is looking) was well underway.
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I had all but forgotten Mr. Brown's yoga sessions, a key component of his midlife crisis, until they proved invaluable during the climactic chase, in which he is obliged to do the splits.
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Jackson (Jesse Williams) invites the guys to see his midlife crisis yacht and drives them there in a beautiful paid-placement Lexus that I'll totally take if you guys are giving them away.
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Michael Weatherly wasn't quite mired in that midlife crisis thing when in May, after 13 years, he called it quits as Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo on "NCIS," the most popular series on television.
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Nate meets a fellow midlife-crisis sufferer, Allison, a thin role played winningly by the singer Ingrid Michaelson, and agrees to stage a production of Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Mikado" with older women.
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Her one brush with performing was the Off Broadway play "My Big Gay Italian Midlife Crisis," where she portrayed Luscious Lucille, a pink-leotard-wearing huckster of a fitness plan in Atlantic City.
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American Beauty, 1999 Well, dad's midlife crisis entails smoking pot, lusting after his daughter's teenage friend, and quitting his job to a buy a sweet hot rod and work at a fast-food place.
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Spacey won an Oscar for 1999's American Beauty, playing a 42-year-old advertising executive who has a midlife crisis when he becomes sexually infatuated with Suvari's character, his teenage daughter's best friend.
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In the cyborg version of a midlife crisis, I convinced my remarkably supportive husband and editors to endorse wiring a $400 nanocomputer to my chest, only to have two experts warn me off it.
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People dream about owning a Ferrari, a Lamborghini, a McLaren, a Pagani, or a Bugatti all their lives, from a tender young age right up until they experience that third or fourth midlife crisis.
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And they all offer something different, to be sure: Trump is the flashy red sports car you are told will make you feel virile and powerful again in the midst of your midlife crisis.
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It obviously is not a happy domicile because in the play's second scene, Matt, a law professor in the throes of a midlife crisis, apologetically confesses to a one-night fling with a stranger.
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CreditCreditDavid Brandon Geeting for The New York Times In 2012, Victor Wong, a video game designer for a toy company in Toronto, had a tiny midlife crisis in his hotel room while on vacation.
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This early-midlife crisis has been extremely productive: In 2015, Mr. Aciar, now 38, made 1,200 pieces for an installation commissioned by Alexandre de Betak, the fashion show producer, for Coach, the luxury brand.
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JANET Unless we are having a midlife crisis, like the title character in John Cheever's story "The Swimmer," private swimming pools, swing sets and Porta Potties are strictly off-limits to unauthorized passers-by.
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In "Brad's Status," Mike White's astute, cringy and ultimately kindhearted new film, Mr. Stiller undergoes a midlife crisis that has less to do with restlessness or lust than with a dreadful loss of perspective.
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In America, the younger Abijako painted and played soccer, before having what he semi-seriously calls a "midlife crisis" halfway through high school, after which he gave up sports and turned to fashion design.
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The best joke of all, intended or not, may be the sly jab at the cult of youth among some gay men: Josh is having a midlife crisis — at the ripe age of 30.
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"I'd say 20173 percent of them thought maybe I was having a midlife crisis," Mr. Bean recalled in his book "Apollo" (22017), written with Andrew Chaikin, in which he reproduced many of his paintings.
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This week, the new Zaha Hadid Architects-designed hotel opened in Macau, Elizabeth Alexander on Lorna Simpson, art collector and art publisher Peter Brant sounds, um, problematic, "Terrorientalist Landscapes," Paul Gauguin's midlife crisis, and more.
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The major turning points in the series hinge on familial lies, odd coincidence and decisions that are the stuff of midlife crisis novels set in the suburbs of Connecticut, not gothic tales of the uncanny.
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Less successful was Roger Sonnabend, son of the drab financier A. M. Sonnabend, who in the frenzy of a midlife crisis began wearing beads and Nehru jackets and embarked on a series of desperate modernizations.
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It's tragic when Clint Barton (Jeremy Renner) loses his family in the first few minutes of "Avengers: Endgame," because they were clearly the only people holding him back from a full-on midlife-crisis makeover.
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Mr. Moss recycled a character's name from an unpublished novel he wrote "about a guy who is going through a midlife crisis and he wants to kind of return to the past," he told me.
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She is funny on "cubbing" (dating men in their 20s and trying to master their horrible slang) and on "MAM" (middle-aged madness, which Bushnell claims is the female version of the male midlife crisis).
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She is funny on "cubbing" (dating men in their 20s and trying to master their horrible slang) and on "MAM" (middle-aged madness, which Bushnell claims is the female version of the male midlife crisis).
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Still, ever since those early days of floundering through page after page of men's midlife crisis sex fantasies dressed up as important books, I have regarded all big divorced guy novels with a certain skepticism.
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On a new episode of Facebook Watch's Red Table Talk, Smith, 50, revealed that he considered Pinkett Smith's 40th birthday, when she was experiencing a self-described "midlife crisis," as the "low-point" in his marriage.
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After spending several years living in New York City, Rohrbaugh moved back to St. Louis, saying while she was "not quite old enough for a midlife crisis," she wasn't able to "get her shit together" either.
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An academic having an early midlife crisis who neglects his wife, flirts with a student and stresses over a more successful colleague sounds like a scenario out of, if you'll forgive me, a Woody Allen film.
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In the 1970s, just as our economic and gender orders began to take on their current form, pundits and scholars alike were talking seriously about the "midlife crisis" as an identifiable moment in a modern life.
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Based on a web comic apparently popular enough to become a Netflix movie, "Polar" pales in comparison to other assassin-in-midlife-crisis movies like "Grosse Pointe Blank" (with John Cusack) and "Panic" (William H. Macy).
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That's why I think that this is interesting, to have a character essentially be forced to grapple with that, and if she weren't in this situation maybe she would have a midlife crisis somewhere down the road.
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"If this is a midlife crisis, that was the low, and we've got 10 years before we have another really big scare, potentially," the co-founder of Fundstrat Global Advisors said in a CNBC "Squawk Box" interview.
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You may have thought that Will Smith getting Instagram was just another fork in the path of that so-called midlife crisis, but actually I'd suggest that it is an unequivocal force for good in the world.
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"Steppenwolf," on the other hand, tells the story of an aging intellectual's midlife crisis; you don't need the clue offered by the initials of Harry Haller, the book's unhappy hero, to make the identification with the author.
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He could also follow the lead of men in his age cohort and resume his leading-man status, but as a man of 55, maybe with grown kids, with a midlife crisis thrown in for good measure.
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Despite admitting to having no talent and no ambitions and not being very likeable (that last one was me editorializing), they've put together a pretty damn solid eight songs for an album called Midlife Crisis Tropical Vacation.
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Another highlight of the dance program will come from the British company Lost Dog, which is to present "Juliet & Romeo" in April, in which the Shakespeare characters survive and find themselves in a midlife crisis in their 40s.
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Call it natural evolution or ideological midlife crisis, but the figures profiled here — Whittaker Chambers, James Burnham, Ronald Reagan, Norman Podhoretz, David Horowitz and Christopher Hitchens — all turned away from the political left, either incrementally or in revelatory bursts.
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I hope we return to his POV at some point in the season to see more of that relationship explored, but in this episode we pivot to his impending death crisis, which looks a lot like a midlife crisis.
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Fleeing the midlife crisis that her picture-perfect Connecticut life created, Mary Ann is quickly drawn back into the orbit of Anna Madrigal, her chosen family and a new generation of queer young residents living at 28 Barbary Lane.
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They bang on about the same shit they always do, every single time; his boyfriend, your job, her dad's midlife crisis—patting the same people on the back for the same one good thing they did six months ago.
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But when I stumbled into surfing again, during a kind of pre-midlife crisis, it reactivated fantasies of a life of sunlight and ocean, of immediate, full-bodied gratification, which had been lying dormant rather than dead inside me.
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In the midst of a midlife crisis, Mr. Mazzu (Josh Radnor), an English teacher at a Rust Belt high school, applies for the drama job and the principal gives it to him, leapfrogging a better-qualified teacher (Rosie Perez).
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" BMW's British featherweight hatchback, approaching its 60th birthday, is facing a midlife crisis and struggling sales in the U.S. In its heyday, the Mini was featured racing through markets and subway tunnels in the 13 remake of "The Italian Job.
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The system was to be a visual statement about the power and prestige of the American government, and was conceived, Mr. Schrag said, "very much in opposition to New York," whose aging system was in the thick of a midlife crisis.
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He was almost immediately drawn to the footgear display and pointed out a gray and blue sneaker, the Brooks Adrenaline GTS, that has supported him for 15 years through 093 marathons and thousands of miles of midlife crisis pavement pounding.
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But if you're a 55-year-old guy in the midst of a raging midlife crisis and you wanna signal to the world, "I'm not only groovy and hug trees but I'm also rich, have sex with me," you buy a Tesla.
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Karl, perhaps swinging too far away from his brilliantly cynical turn in 2016's Groundhog Day, plays Edward as directionless but essentially pleasant, rather than as a serious cutthroat whose love of The Art of War can't help him through a midlife crisis.
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Books of The Times Dave Eggers's captivating 2012 novel, "A Hologram for the King," was both a sad-funny portrait of a man in the midst of a midlife crisis and a light-handed allegory about the current frustrations of middle-class America.
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The discussion now, as in Ada Calhoun's Why We Can't Sleep: Women's New Midlife Crisis (2020), is largely about the crises of debt and care that are overwhelming Generation X—certainly not about midlife as a site for spiritual and professional renewal.
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The midlife crisis was meant to offer a way to rethink the gender hierarchy of an earlier era: It was designed, especially, to allow women a chance to rearrange their lives at midlife, once the tremendous burden of child-rearing had passed.
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Joining "Ocean's 8" is the Melissa McCarthy vehicle "Life of the Party," which cribs its premise from Rodney Dangerfield's 1986 comedy "Back to School" — a midlife crisis inspires a parent to join his or her kid at college and high jinks ensue.
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"People see creativity as the solution to the midlife crisis," said Julia Cameron, the high priestess of the creative movement whose book "The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Creativity" has sold more than four million copies since it was published in 1992.
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In "Linda Vista," which Ben Brantley called an "inspired, ruthless take on the classic midlife-crisis comedy," he plays Wheeler, a San Diego camera-shop employee who has torpedoed his marriage and moved to a down-market apartment complex to escape the wreckage.
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Netflix's latest holiday movie, Holiday in the Wild, might have all the makings of a classic, terrible Hallmark movie, featuring the age-defying Kristin Davis and Rob Lowe falling in love over Christmas in Africa and overcoming a slew of midlife crisis cliches.
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So, despite some sloppy scenic art (Roger Hanna designed the set), it's simple enough to enter the adaptation, called "The Artist," and imagine yourself on a provincial Russian estate, alongside Nicov (Alexander Sokovikov), a painter on the wrong side of a midlife crisis.
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But Ball endeavors to up the ante, as Ramon begins experiencing eerie visions that he can't explain, while Greg's oppressive sense of melancholy -- the midlife crisis in "American Beauty" comes to mind -- adds a layer of tension that hovers over the whole show.
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" While it kind of sounds like Woody might be going through some sort of midlife crisis, Hanks told the BBC's Chris Evans Breakfast Show that it's a little more momentous than that, calling his emotional last day in the recording booth "a moment in history.
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And so it was satisfying to see them head off on their own this season — Shoshanna in Japan, Hannah at her mom's midlife-crisis moon-goddess retreat, Marnie on her heroin-fueled lark with Charlie, even Jessa kicking around with Adam on Coney Island.
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Hanks had read the script years before, but while Mister Rogers is the hero of the story, he's not necessarily the protagonist of it, and so it felt like just another midlife crisis movie about a man dealing with a fraught relationship with his father.
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With the help of a book, a controversial side business and a new documentary series — coming soon to a smartphone near you — his midlife crisis is unfolding before packed stadiums, millions of television viewers and social media followers, and an eager news media horde.
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The program scheduled at the Sag Harbor Cinema over the weekend was typically offbeat: It included a French film about a philosophy professor facing a midlife crisis and a documentary about a Dutch immigrant who turned an old plow horse into a show jumping champion.
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But his raging midlife crisis comes as a result of feeling as though the boss no longer trusts his instincts — or is perhaps applying the same "What have you done for me lately?" attitude to Wags that he is to the rest of the staff.
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Written by Charlie Kaufman and co-directed by Kaufman and Duke Johnson, Anomalisa used stop-motion animation to tell the idiosyncratic story of a man in the middle of a midlife crisis, using the style of animation to create a dreamy, surreal look into his mind.
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His latest novel, "Heroes of the Frontier," is a kind of bookend to "Hologram": another midlife crisis, captured in media res — through the story of Josie, a former dentist on the run from a bad relationship and on the lam in Alaska with her two children.
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A grumpy businessman whose apparent midlife crisis coincides with Khaled's arrival, Wikstrom abruptly, but not quickly — Mr. Kaurismaki has a principled aversion to haste — leaves his wife, quits his job, wins a lot of money in a poker game and buys a restaurant called the Golden Pint.
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The play was the product of a midlife crisis for its creators — the lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II, crippled by a dozen straight years of Broadway and London flops, and the composer Richard Rodgers, coping with the loss of his longtime collaborator, Lorenz Hart, to incapacitating alcoholism.
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Yet success is no guarantee against a midlife crisis, and so it is that half a century after the basic mechanisms of plate tectonics were first elucidated, geologists are confronting surprising gaps in their understanding of a concept that is truly the bedrock of their profession.
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"Goodnight Nobody" exists most comfortably at its most casual — when it captures the ungainliness of friends and family straining to reconnect, and the chatty panic of characters who are too old for a quarter-life crisis yet too young for a midlife crisis having crises anyway.
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"Vinyl" tries to roll together art, race, romance, mystery, downtown excess and suburban angst, and when it feels as if it's less about music and more about a midlife crisis, it doesn't succeed — it wants to be Velvet Underground but lands somewhere closer to Emerson, Lake and Palmer.
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In a moment of anguished confession, Billy admits that there's a good reason for his lack of game: Although he's young for a midlife crisis, he has fallen in love with a 23-year-old trainer at his gym, to the point that he's considering ending his marriage.
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Attempts to reclaim a carefree youth are at the nexus of most midlife crisis movies, but Cody and Reitman give their versions a ferociously female tilt — albeit one centered steadily on a white, cis, middle-class experience of femininity — by having fertility lurk ominously in the background of both.
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" –Matthew Jussim "Don't be afraid of getting older; whatever you didn't do in your 20s you will get a chance to do again in your 40s (it's called midlife crisis, and it's a lot of fun!)" –Mike Harney "For me, being 25 today means I'm still finding my feet.
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" But in 1977, after the end of the Vietnam War left the Liberty Union Party ideologically rudderless, the source who knew Sanders at the time told CNN he "had kind of a midlife crisis, left the Party, dropped out of sight and came back as a local candidate.
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It was a very surreal experience to have that sandwiched...you know, between these like, pretty offensive jokes at the expense of Asian Americans and then this sort of rally cry for black women, and then Chappelle to come out and work through what felt like a midlife crisis.
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I believe that he's a big swinging dick going through a midlife crisis as soon as he sets off his Lamborghini's alarm to distract any looky-loos on his way to collect a flash drive in a public square — the dulcet tones of Pitbull's "Fireball" ramping up in the background.
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Like O'Connor, Tobias Menzies' note-perfect portrayal of the Duke of Edinburgh provides a master class in image rehab; Prince Philip, known today for his offensive and often racist gaffes, is humanized as we see him endure a moon landing–inspired midlife crisis and reestablish a relationship with his mother.
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If the film feels tilted toward Charlie in its storytelling, it's because Nicole has already done a lot of figuring herself out before the film even starts, whereas Charlie still has to enact his midlife crisis onscreen as he rethinks what he took for granted and how little he actually compromised.
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The country's leader, Nicola Sturgeon, the kind of smart woman a middle-aged American would fall in love with in a Hollywood film about a man whose midlife crisis leads him to go in search of the Loch Ness monster (But what he found was love), has come out of this looking very statesperson-like.
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We've already gone deep into what works and doesn't work about "Get Lit," and how it ultimately may represent Smith's midlife crisis (now known as "feeling washed"), but what no amount of analysis will change is this: the song is an unfortunate curse, more so because it happened to come out today of all days.
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Featured films include Mike Kelley's "Day is Done" (2005-6), a campy series of vignettes based on found photographs of high school musicals, Judy Fiskin's "Diary of a Midlife Crisis" (1997), a video diary in the form of comedic single-shot scenes, and Michael Webster's "Kitty 54" (2015), a CGI cat containing kaleidoscopic scenes of disco's heyday.
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And, of course, fame's downsides are thoroughly explored: drug and alcohol abuse, the struggles of having to answer questions about what it's like to be in an "all girl" band over and over again, getting dropped from their major during a pivotal point, and Gardner's resignation amid a very real midlife crisis leading to their overall implosion.
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He's been tramping around the countryside for much of the movie, usually in the fumbling company of Thana (Thaneth Warakulnukroh), an architect from Bangkok who, with his marriage on the rocks and his career seriously on the skids, has set off on his midlife crisis not behind the wheel of a new sports car but alongside an old elephant.
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Also this week: a selection of the best stories by postmodernist pioneer Robert Coover; a remarkably readable and respectful book about the abortion debate; a novel about a 217-year-old man suffering a midlife crisis; a history of how Christianity became the dominant religion of the Roman Empire; a new private eye introduced by Walter Mosley; and two standout works of historical fiction.
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Kate Reddy (whom readers might have fallen in love with in I Don't Know How She Does It) is getting close to her 50th birthday, and she's jugging a lot: Her children have grown into unruly teens, her mother's health is failing, her husband is going through a midlife crisis, and, in the midst of it all, she's dealing with a growing desire to return to the workforce.
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Like Dope and Tangerine, two films that emerged from last year's Sundance with big buzz only to be utterly absent from this year's Oscars, these are films that never really enter the conversation because they're not seen as "Oscar movies" — a term that for white filmmakers can mean everything from stories about running a baseball team to having a midlife crisis, but for everyone else has a distressingly narrow definition.
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