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...didn’t find a husband while I’m in Greece this summer, I would probably never get married or be financially secure. After seeing “Friends with Money,” my worries are gone: I never want to get married or make money??apparently, such a lifestyle only leads to intense psychosis, homophobia, greasy hair, and really prominent wrinkles...
Nicole Holofcener’s painfully sad and wickedly smart new film is a study of middle age: “Friends with Money?? focuses on four women as they enter, with trepidation, tantrums, and biting wit, into middle-age, but moreover it highlights how four actresses who were conventionally charming and cute in their thirties—Jennifer Aniston, Catherine Keener (“Capote”), Frances McDormand (“Almost Famous”), and Joan Cusack (“School of Rock”)—have matured into four phenomenal acting forces...
...feminist playwright Wendy Wasserstein, especially the material of “The Heidi Chronicles,” “Uncommon Women,” and “Old Money.” The portrayal of the perplexing nature of female depression in “Friends with Money?? seems to echo Michael Cunningham’s book and 2002 screenplay “The Hours.” At the same time, this movie strives for the sexual humor and heart-warming friendship of “Sex and the City?...
Despite these influences, “Friends with Money?? transcends becoming a clichéd dystopian narrative or chick flick, in part because of its pensive cinematography and a mournful, unique Rickee Lee Jones soundtrack. The film really captivates, though, because of its freshness as a distinctly post-feminist, post-boomer, twenty-first century story. It frightened me so much that these familiar feeling women—who have broken the glass ceiling, had their perfect children, built their Barbie dream home, and still have amazing social lives and fabulous shoes—are supposed...
...Bottom Line: Don’t expect to leave the theatre uplifted about life or hopeful about finding Mr. Right—at least until your forties. But even the greatest cynic will be moved by “Friends with Money??s” outstanding acting and its resolution that the best things in life are supportive friends and that special someone to tell you you’re the prettiest person in the room...