Friends with Money Details

[Highly rated reviewer]

Friends With Money

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.

OK

I have to say I was really disappointed with this film, I thought it would be filled with laughs, adventures and exciting romance... But sadly it was all very limited. This really is not one of Jennifer Anniston bests films at all. Shame really as it had many good actors in.. Wouldn't recommend it!