"Violence" stars Viggo Mortensen and Maria Bello as a happily married couple living the American Dream with their two children in the Midwest.

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"If a couple is just happily married, it gets boring for the average person, " he says.

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The couple is still happily hitched, a fact that has led to their naming as the "longest married couple" in the U.S. for 2013 by Worldwide Marriage Encounter, a Christian marriage group based in San Bernardino, Calif.

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His barbed comedy features a London couple, highly educated, well-off, liberal, empty-nesters, apparently happily married and still attracted to each other after 25 years together.

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