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Please Give (2010)

April. 30,2010
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6.6
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R
| Drama Comedy

In New York City, a husband and wife butt heads with the granddaughters of the elderly woman who lives in the apartment the couple owns.

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FeistyUpper
2010/04/30

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

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Comwayon
2010/05/01

A Disappointing Continuation

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TaryBiggBall
2010/05/02

It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

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Fleur
2010/05/03

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

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priyantha-bandara
2010/05/04

This movie reminds of principle human values and things and how the modern society is smoothly drifting away from it, while a few still struggle to keep things going in the right direction. Actually this is a sad movie. IT speaks of old people, death, people with terminal illnesses, husbands that cheat wives, merchants that cheat clients. Though it defines itself as a comedy there is nothing to laugh about in here. It's all tragedy. That itself shows how of social values are deteriorating now. . We think laughing at some old woman, or death is funny?? Think deep after watching this and you might cry at yourself.More like this at flickshout.tk

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kinderhead
2010/05/05

Lets see...first of all there is no story really, no 'plot' to speak of, no clear direction of where the movies' going, no real humor, no reason to go especially to see it in a theater...if it comes up on TV, watch it until you fall asleep. Though I have to say that it started out in a positive fashion where you are 'treated' to an array of breasts on display in the cancer monitoring clinic! Couldn't accept Amanda Peet getting the hots for a fat porgy Oliver Platt and kissing him within 5 minutes of being alone. Don't know why they threw in the teenage daughters quest for jeans and clear skin - easily omitted and not relevant to the movie.Its a slow meandering movie that shows in detail the boring lives of two rather mundane families going about their mundane lives, though the pretty Amanda seemed miscast as the uncaring granddaughter...All in all, avoidable. And if seen, quickly forgotten.

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evanston_dad
2010/05/06

The ratio of caustic, neurotic urbanite whiners to normal people with whom I could actually see myself engaging in conversation without wanting to strangle them is uncharacteristically low in Nicole Holofcener's latest, which is probably why I enjoyed this film much more than some of her previous ones."Please Give" suggests that frequently those most in need of our generosity are those who are closest to us. That theme is most vividly illustrated in the character played by Catherine Keener, a poster child for affluent white liberal guilt, who wants to help others in need but feels far too badly for them to ever end up doing any good (she's kicked out of volunteer jobs for being a Debbie Downer). Keener is the typical Nicole Holofcener creation, a character so annoying in her neuroses that you almost end up disliking the actor for bringing her to life. Thankfully, Keener's performance is balanced by that of the lovely Rebecca Hall, who plays the grandchild of Keener's next-door neighbor and has the thankless job of taking care of her miserable battle axe of a grandmother in the absence of anyone else who will. Her's is a portrait of someone who gives of herself not because she feels vaguely guilty or because she expects the admiration of others for her selflessness, but rather because she knows it's the right thing to do and that no one else is going to step up to do it.Rounding out the cast of more or less misfits are Oliver Platt, as Keener's philandering husband; Amanda Peet, as Hall's preening and obnoxiously (but ultimately devastatingly insecure) selfish sister; and Lois Smith, in a small but sweet role as the grandmother of Hall's boyfriend.Grade: B

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Greg Debniak
2010/05/07

At least Woody Allen's movies about New Yorkers had some humor and plot twists. What we have here is boring self-absorption. What is it about New Yorkers that their every little feeling is amplified out of context to be the be-all and end-all of existence? Why would I care about your guilt or any other feelings you have that make you uncomfortable. The characters in this movie give me no reason to care about them at all.... they're all too full of themselves.I'm sorry but like most people I do NOT see New York City as the "Center of the Universe". It's just a big, busy, overcrowded and overpriced mess of a city that exists for nothing more than self-glorification. Give me a break, I'd rather be in Philadelphia or Chicago or Seattle. At least the people in those cities have a horizon that isn't limited by the Hudson and the East Rivers.I rarely walk out of movies before they are over but I did on this one. A waste of my time.

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