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Friends with Money
starring: Catherine Keener, Jason Isaacs, Timm Sharp, Joan Cusack, Greg Germann
directed by: Nicole Holofcener

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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 0043396150881
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Release Date: August 29, 2006
Running Time: 88 minutes
Sales Rank: 27196
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 2006

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Product Description:
The story of a single woman whos looking for a man & whose three best friends are all wealthy and married. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 11/27/2007 Starring: Jennifer Aniston Catherine Keener Run time: 88 minutes Rating: R Director: Nicole Holofcner

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With her third feature, Friends With Money, writer-director Nicole Holofcener continues to develop one of the most distinctive voices in American independent filmmaking. While not as purely satisfying as her previous films Walking and Talking and Lovely and Amazing, Holofcener's third feature is admirably ambitious in establishing a diverse and dynamic range of relationships among long-time girlfriends, their spouses (for better and worse), and the way in which money (or lack of it) affects them all. The have-not of the group is Olivia (Jennifer Aniston), a teacher-turned pot-smoking housecleaner in the upscale neighborhoods of West Los Angeles. She's drifting, uncertain of her future both professionally and romantically, while her friends Franny (Joan Cusack), Christine (Catherine Keener), and Jane (Frances McDormand) cope with the relatively enviable problems of wealthy discontentment. They've all got personal crises to resolve, and while Olivia juggles the affections of a likable louse (Scott Caan) and a lonely slob who's secretly rich (Bob Stephenson), Holofcener taps a rich vein of humor and melancholy as these women go about their daily routines, attending benefits, chatting over meals, and doting over Olivia as the 'needy one' in their closed circle of friendships. All of this is richly observed and wonderfully acted (with male costars played by Greg Germann, Jason Isaacs, and Simon McBurney), but reaction to Friends With Money is strictly a matter of personal taste. Holofcener isn't telling a story so much as examining lives in various states of disarray, and she offers no false comforts or simple resolutions. Like life, Friends With Money just continues on its way, with some friends happier than others. There's plenty of truth to be found, if you know where to look.--Jeff Shannon

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- imposible to overcome gag reflex
I bought this dry chic flic in the cut-out-bin for $1, and that is about what it is worth. Happily, Francis McDormand delivers her usual good performance, but this is an aimless and pointless film that ultimately simply ends without resolving its various threads. My wife hated it. Joan Cusack just comes off as shrill all the time, and no one else offers a performance of great distinction. It reminded me of the "Annie Hall" line "la de da" but re-written "blah blah blah."

The story follows a disjointed range of relationships among four middle-aged long-time girlfriends and their spouses or slampieces, while the narrative spine concerns money (or its absence). Apaprently it dawns on middle-aged women that money is important, after they spent their youth in fads and coolness. The Poor Clair is Olivia (Jennifer Aniston), a drop-out teacher-turned maid for folks who only appear slight better off than herself, ... Read More

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- Another Jennifer Aniston sad sack movie
This reminds me of "The Good Girl," though that was a better film, in which Aniston also played a semi blue collar type. This one makes her a little more upscale, but still playing someone poor. All I could picture was the mansion she lived in with Brad Pitt. The cast is stellar here, and the script is serviceable. It's a pleasant enough indie diversion, but the Earth won't move for you as you watch it pass by.

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- Disappointment
All I can say is that I was incredibly disappointed in this movie. It lacked content worthy of a film so badly. I am a big fan of both Jennifer Aniston and Joan Cusack and I was psyched to see them together in a film, but both of their characters bored me. I found it to be a very forgetable story.

Rating:

- not a bad movie at all
Friends with Money was a pretty good comedy movie with a bit of seriousness and truth thrown in. It's about all these different couples who talk to each other, and then when the girlfriends and boyfriends (or wives and husbands) leave their friends home (or restaurant or wherever the meeting place was) on the drive home, they criticize their friends and basically talk about them behind their backs.

I got the feeling on many occasions that the wives and girlfriends were more concerned with being jealous of each other instead of actually caring about the friendships they've developed with each other. I think that's part of reality anyway- secretly we do become jealous of our friends when they're able to accomplish something we haven't been able to yet.

There's also an important message behind this film- don't take things too seriously or you won't be able to enjoy life. Of course, the more ... Read More

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