please give ( or counting my blessings )
i enjoy opportunities on t.v. or movies to recognize streets or shops I've visited on trips to Manhattan, blessedly this gave me something to do while watching writer/director Nicole Holofener's slice of life film, "please give".
Catherine Keener, Oliver Platt, Amanda Peet, drag along Catherine's younger sister Elizabeth, Rebecca Hall and Ann Morgan Guilbert (formerly Millie Helper on the Dick van Dyke show and Vetta Rosenberg on the nanny) on this long, slow death march towards pointless. along with sight seeing, i spent a lot of time wondering if Rebecca Hall is related to Scarlett Johansson- the resemblance was distracting- blessing number two.
this is a film ( i can't call it a story ) that follows a group of people who interact because an old lady(Guilbert) who's attended to by two grand daughters (Hall and Peet) living next to a couple(older Keener and Platt) with a daughter (Keener the younger) is on death's door. when the grandmother dies the couple will knock out the adjoining wall of the two apartments to enlarge their own. this death watch fits right in with the couples chosen profession- selling vintage furniture bought from the heirs of the newly deceased. these ghouls live and breathe death, so it's no surprise when the wife starts showing symptoms of deep, deep depression. the surprise would have been if she was ever anything else but.
the third blessing of this morbid movie was the discovery that Ann Morgan Guilbert ( i like her) is still alive and kicking which is ironic as hers is the only character who actually dies. this film begs the questions- who green lighted this turkey? was is really the best project vying for funding? i have to believe it wasn't and that there is some twisted reason i blessedly will never know why people put so much effort into something so unworthy.
i enjoy opportunities on t.v. or movies to recognize streets or shops I've visited on trips to Manhattan, blessedly this gave me something to do while watching writer/director Nicole Holofener's slice of life film, "please give".
Catherine Keener, Oliver Platt, Amanda Peet, drag along Catherine's younger sister Elizabeth, Rebecca Hall and Ann Morgan Guilbert (formerly Millie Helper on the Dick van Dyke show and Vetta Rosenberg on the nanny) on this long, slow death march towards pointless. along with sight seeing, i spent a lot of time wondering if Rebecca Hall is related to Scarlett Johansson- the resemblance was distracting- blessing number two.
this is a film ( i can't call it a story ) that follows a group of people who interact because an old lady(Guilbert) who's attended to by two grand daughters (Hall and Peet) living next to a couple(older Keener and Platt) with a daughter (Keener the younger) is on death's door. when the grandmother dies the couple will knock out the adjoining wall of the two apartments to enlarge their own. this death watch fits right in with the couples chosen profession- selling vintage furniture bought from the heirs of the newly deceased. these ghouls live and breathe death, so it's no surprise when the wife starts showing symptoms of deep, deep depression. the surprise would have been if she was ever anything else but.
the third blessing of this morbid movie was the discovery that Ann Morgan Guilbert ( i like her) is still alive and kicking which is ironic as hers is the only character who actually dies. this film begs the questions- who green lighted this turkey? was is really the best project vying for funding? i have to believe it wasn't and that there is some twisted reason i blessedly will never know why people put so much effort into something so unworthy.