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Book Club (2018)

May. 18,2018
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6.1
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PG-13
| Drama Comedy Romance

Four lifelong friends decide that their lives could change by becoming nasty and reading Fifty Shades of Grey in their monthly book club to get inspiration on how to handle sexual pleasure at an elderly age.

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Crwthod
2018/05/18

A lot more amusing than I thought it would be.

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BeSummers
2018/05/19

Funny, strange, confrontational and subversive, this is one of the most interesting experiences you'll have at the cinema this year.

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Donald Seymour
2018/05/20

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

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Kaelan Mccaffrey
2018/05/21

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

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celine-honores
2018/05/22

It's one of the best films I've ever seen. It has the perfect combination of romance and comedy. And speaking of comedy, I cried if laughter almost through the entire movie. It's not just another one of those stupid "haha He/she tripped over a ..." movie, it actually has funny jokes. Overall a really great movie if you love RomComs

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ozjosh03
2018/05/23

By all means, watch this movie for the home decor (some really great kitchens), style tips (Diane Keaton is, as ever, impeccable), smart one-liners (expertly delivered) or Hollywood pizzazz (four very well-preserved leading ladies). It is a satisfying entertainment on all those levels - slickly produced and tastefully photographed; a light, sugary, nutritionally dubious confection of a movie. Just, whatever you do, don't stop to think about any of it. The moment you do the whole thing collapses into a sloppy, nonsensical and rather offensive heap. For one thing, all four of the central characters are patronisingly written as smart, accomplished women who are nevertheless shockingly incapable of doing even the slightest thing in the interests of their own personal happiness. Diane Keaton's character - Diane! - is bullied by her daughters into moving all the way to Arizona before she can work up the nerve to tell them that she's perfectly happy living her own life and isn't ready yet for the granny flat (or, in this case, basement). It may serve the story structure and deliver a (sort of) emotionally-satisfying crisis and climax, but it makes her pathetic and spineless. And it takes all of Keaton's likability to make it fly. It's pretty much the same dynamic with the other characters too. Fortunately, Fonda, Bergen and Steenburgen also have just enough charisma and energy to (mostly) distract from the preposterousness of it all. Of course, there's nothing wrong with a little escapism. But you'd think that these four smart women would be able to insist on slightly smarter escapism.

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capone666
2018/05/24

Book ClubWhen hosting a book club for 60-year olds you must remember to get copies of the novel in large print.However, the ladies in this comedy are more interested in gabbing about their sex lives.At their most recent gathering, millionaire Vivian (Jane Fonda), widow Diane (Diane Keaton), divorcee Sharon (Candice Bergen) and housewife Carol (Mary Steenburgen) undertake the erotic novel Fifty Shades of Grey as their next reading conquest.Over the next 30-days each woman rediscovers her sexuality: Vivian reconnects with an old flame (Don Johnson), Diane meets a pilot (Andy García), Sharon online dates and Carol resuscitates her husband's (Craig T. Nelson) libido. Handcrafted for the aging baby-boomers, this star-studded study of sex over a certain age is relevant and surely relatable. However, the jokes used to convey this significance are not that humorous. Moreover, finding love as a senior nowadays is easier than finding your reading glasses. Yellow Lightvidiotreviews.blogspot.ca

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elod-14387
2018/05/25

I saw it this afternoon at a second-run theater (I am a F in my early 60s). I would say it was worth the $4 admission. Lots of LOL and giggle moments. The pace was really slow at times, though, I felt very restless from the end of the first hour to maybe 15 minutes from the end. Wouldn't recommend it for kids under 16 due to occasional raunch factor. My favorite was Candice Bergen, who had the best lines and always a great delivery. Her character had a high-level professional job and looked like most attractive, mature women over 60 I see in locker rooms--who are not pushing themselves unduly hard to try to look like a teenager, and have other things on their minds. I didn't find Jane Fonda's character believable not did I sense chemistry with the guy in her story. Fonda has clearly had so much cosmetic work done and wore such "Hollywood" makeup and hair that I found it distracting. Diane Keaton pretty much replayed "Annie Hall," charming for awhile but it does get annoying. I give her a shout-out for natural makeup and her silvery bob. Andy Garcia was HOT! Richard Dreyfus was cute but underused. Don Johnson and Craig Nelson, ehhhh. Mary Steenburgen, okay, cute, but nothing special for me except her tap dancing. I agree with others who have said the nonstrop wine drinking through the movie seemed odd. The movie was visually pleasant, whether of interiors, lovely pools and roof decks, cityscapes in LA, desert vistas in Arizona, and luxurious homes. The plot wasn't that credible. These ladies were written as too obsessed with men and in a few cases made drastic jumps into life-changing situations that I didn't find believable. I would have liked the writers to include more real-life dating situations that women over 50 go through...such as men who are not like their profile, or drone on nonstop about their wife or GF who done them wrong, or expect to have sex right away, or are still married, or above all, getting a decent date--because older men gravitate to younger profiles. (Am I bitter? Nope, just realistic...) Anyway, this movie is a fun-sitcom type of movie if you don't expect too much and just relax with it.

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