midlife crisis

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“Yellowjackets,” then, becomes a deliciously macabre play on the midlife crisis.

From New York Times

It was often used to underscore the wistful memories of veterans of the flower-power era in films like Lawrence Kasdan’s 1983 hippies-to-yuppies midlife crisis tale, “The Big Chill,” and Martin Scorsese’s May-December romance installment in the 1989 film “New York Stories,” which also included short films by Woody Allen and Francis Ford Coppola.

From New York Times

In the novel, which is less the story of a midlife crisis than midlife stasis, he comes across mostly as amused or bemused.

From Los Angeles Times

That said, if you’ve had enough male midlife crisis in your prestige TV, “Lucky Hank” may not have a lot to offer you, for all its low-stakes charm.

From New York Times

But I’m so angry he’s turned into such a walking midlife crisis who left his family to shack up with a morally questionable woman for what I’m sure is sex.

From Washington Post