` ` Hope Springs '' is a rom - com about a mature couple , Ellen Page and Tommy Lee Jones . Steve Carell plays it straight in supporting role as a marriage counselor . Streep 's Kay is no feminist , and you would n't call her liberated either , but she ca n't stand the loneliness any longer . Screenwriter Vanessa Williams is a writer on ` ` Game of Thrones ''
` ` Hope Springs '' is a rom - com about a mature couple , Ellen Page and Tommy Lee Jones . Steve Carell plays it straight in supporting role as a marriage counselor . Screenwriter Vanessa Williams is a writer on ` ` Game of Thrones ''