Tommy Lee Jones wears an unidentified watch

Tommy Lee Jones plays Arnold Soames in Hope Springs, a stubborn husband who thinks everything is fine until his wife announces she has signed them up for a week of couples therapy in Maine. David Frankel directed this 2012 film, pairing Jones with Meryl Streep as a long-married couple who have slid into parallel lives. Arnold resists every exercise, dismisses the counselor, and cannot figure out why Kay is unhappy when he has always provided and never cheated. Jones plays him as confused rather than mean, a guy who thinks being there counts as being present. Steve Carell's therapist pushes them through exercises that make Arnold face his emotional shutdown. Jones gets laughs from the grumpy resistance, but there is real sadness underneath it, someone who forgot how to actually be a husband. The film treats both of them fairly, acknowledging that marriages can go stale without anyone trying to ruin things. Jones got some of the best reviews of his later career here, in a role that asked for vulnerability instead of his usual toughness. His watch has not been identified.