Movie of the Day: " Please Give” starring Rebecca Hall, Oliver Platt , Catherine Keener & Elizabeth Keener.
Length: 1:.30:48
Date of Review: 09-29-2010
Rating : 6.40 (a thought provoking Life crisis and finding your way through whatever age your at was the underlying theme. Decent watch)
Movie Review: This is a movie that really gets you to observe what your priorities are in Life at this and at every stage of your Life as depicted by the 6 main characters and the variations of their ages. .
The Wife, (Catherine Keener) has a successful antique furniture store in New York city that she runs with her Husband (Oliver Platt) who is the open minded lets enjoy every moment of any opportunity. His line “she was, and I think I was flirting back, what was that all about” conversation with the wife says it all. The daughter , growing up at 15-16 and wanting all the cool things , and the mother who won´t give the daughter the cool jeans but feels an overwhelming amount of guilt to give every single Bum on the streets 5-20 each as she walks along. Priorities in Life.
The elderly, 91 yrs old Grandmother neighbor with 2 grand-daughters, one nice (Rebecca Hall) and one nasty (Elizabeth Keener) and the really degrading attitudes that sometimes the elderly have to put up with because kicking the shit out of a 25 year old at 91 isn´t quite as easy, but you can see she wants too.
The different characters I enjoyed as they intertwined back and forth between the different stories behind the stories. The actors were pros and that made the movie a little more entertaining that it should have been. It was well acted but still didn’t give me the kind of movie I expected with this set of cast involved , very predictable themes and expectations were already expected by the time you got to them.
However, overall it was an entertaining 90 minutes to enjoy the characters and the differences between what you expect at the different ages of your life, it was almost as though the director wanted us to believe that every character combined could be one person´s life at the different stages. I just felt that kind of nostalgic kind of movie where there was something more to it.
The ending was a bit abrupt like the movie ran out of money at the end and couldn’t finish it but maybe that was the way the director wanted us to leave feeling that way, it was fun to imagine the true purposes of each character but it was never really grasping onto any of them that I most walked away feeling. Like the focus should have been really clear and focused on a main character instead of having us get to know a little about a lot of them.
The movie will make you re-evaluate your life priorities and that can´t be that bad can it. as thought provoking and many well played areas but still left me wanting more.
Even ….No thumbs up, but no thumbs down.
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