Friends with Money details
| Format: | 15 DVD |
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| Starring: | Jennifer Aniston, Joan Cusack, Catherine Keener, Frances McDormand, Romy Rosemont, Cass Asher, Jason Isaacs |
| Director: | Nicole Holofcener |
| Genres: | Comedy - Slapstick, Drama |
| Studio: | SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Name | Discs | |
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Friends with Money |
15 Feature |
DVD Information
| Rental release: | 25 Sep 2006 |
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| Main languages: | English |
| Subtitles: | Dutch, English, Hindi, Portuguese, Spanish |
| Hearing impaired subtitles: | English |
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Friends With Money
By SAI81 (360 reviews) from Tonbridge , 05 Jun 2006[Highly rated reviewer]
Despite an excellent cast Nicole Holofcener's third film is a horrendous bore.
It focuses on three rich married women (Catherine Keener, Frances McDormand and Joan Cusack) and their poor single friend (Jennifer Aniston). Sadly none of them has much of a personality and they are all pretty unpleasent company in various ways and so I never warmed to them or cared what happened to them.
On the plus side: Cusack McDormand and particularly Keener are incapable of being truly bad and turn in the best performances you could hope for given the limitations, Keener's acid tongue during rows with her husband (Jason Issacs; a plank) being particulary memorable.
Aniston is clearly out of her depth, having remembered how to act for The Good Girl she seems to have forgotten again and wheels out Rachel from Friends by another name.
I hate to be so negative about this film, i want to like it because of who is in it but when you give great actors so little to work with you just end up looking silly.- Was this review helpful to you?
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(224)Slightly short changed
By orangeboy (56 reviews) from Cardiff , 10 Sep 2012There are three ways to explore or portray relationships between people, be they marriages, friendships, work etc.
One is to delve very deep into extreme characters with complex personal circumstances. Like Magnolia.
The second is to be slightly quirky and off the wall - this is Wes Anderson territory.
And the third is to flit over the surface and not go too deep as it might be a bit hard to handle. Like a Disney version life. How Nora Ephron would see life.
This film firmly takes the 3rd option. Now that's no bad thing if that is all you are expecting. If you want gut wrenching drama that yearns for Oscar glory then look elsewhere. This is ok but no more that that.
What demotes this from a standard 3 stars to 2. 5 is the fact that just when the characters have started to develop and things really begin to get interesting, the film finishes. Its only 85 minutes long! I suspect the director or writer will argue that this is to allow the audience to think about where the characters may end up or how the plots should develop. Fair enough, but don't expect much thanks for it.
Watchable but may end up as something on in the background rather than fully capture your attention.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Friends with Money
By JuliaMC (2 reviews) , 18 May 2012The most boring and pointless film I have ever watched, a total waste of my time spent watching this, I don't know why I even bothered watching to the end, it's not even woth one star- Was this review helpful to you?
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dull and pointless
By a customer , 12 Sep 2011Doesn't delve far enough into the characters personal journeys for a meaningful story. There was little chemistry between the leading female cast so their friendships were not believable. Not quite sure what the director was trying to achieve here there was very little substance and would have been better off going down the romcom route.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Criminally underrated and seemingly misunderstood.
By adam91 (2 reviews) from Bristol , 01 Aug 2011People seem to have missed the point of this film. It's a restrained, perceptive look at the conflicts created through wealth, as well as a depiction of four women and their respective marriages and relationships. It's an incredibly rich film with strong female characters, each experiencing their own low-key crisis. One is a depressive, directionless maid still hung up on a past affair with a married man. Another is experiencing a mid-life crisis of sorts, one finds herself constantly at odds with her husband, and another struggles over the politics of wealth and charity.
Where Friends with Money is most successful is in its depiction of relationships that are both falling apart and remaining intact despite suggestion of otherwise, and the strength of female friendship. The entire ensemble is spectacular, and its worthy of attention purely as it gives interesting, dynamic female characters to middle-aged actresses who are usually consigned to the scrap heap as soon as they hit forty. But, with that in mind, don't write this off as a chick flick. Its themes cross gender as much as they do age or race.
Finally, it's a story of small personal growths and evolution, something that some have misconstrued as meaning the film has no rhythm or ending. It's because Friends with Money is a chapter in the lives of several people, played as realistically as possible. The fact that people can write off the script as 'rubbish' shows nothing but ignorance. And seek out Nicole Holofcener's other films as well, each wonderful explorations into women and their relationships and conflicts, and all starring the incredibly naturalistic Catherine Keener.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Pointless Movie
By a customer , 01 Aug 2011No real beginning and no proper ending. Although the viewer may be able to empathise with each character, they will ultimately be left disappointed and depressed. A film that has no point to it. In fact it also frustrated me too..a woman's film, my man would have switched off after 10 minutes.- Was this review helpful to you?
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