Entertainment Weekly critic Ken Tucker stated "Bad is a superlatively fresh metaphor for a middle-age crisis: It took cancer and lawbreaking to jolt Walt out of his suburban stupor, to experience life again-to take chances, risk danger, do things he didn't think himself capable of doing.

On the losing side of a middle-age crisis, Leon finds his marriage to the sweet, rueful Sonja (Kerry Armstrong) crumbling as he pursues an affair with Jane (Rachael Blake), a woman he meets in a salsa dance class.

"And I'm a little old for a middle-age crisis."

It is a comedy about escaping middle-age crisis to the Caribbean, a heaven that quickly turns into a hell for the main character.

To the 72-year-old Likud Party leader's ardent supporters, this makes Mr. Sharon particularly well equipped to deal with Israel's middle-age crisis because he has participated in every battle since the state's bloody birth.

I think it was a case of middle-age crisis or something.

Some of these people got into middle-age crisis.

I was going through my middle-age crisis smack on cue.

Did he now want to enlist it to prop up a middle-age crisis?