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- Genre: Comedy
- Running Time: 90 min.
- MPAA Rating: R
- Director: Nicole Holofcener
- Writer: Nicole Holofcener
- Cast: Catherine Keener, Amanda Peet, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Rebecca Hall, Kevin Corrigan, Oliver Platt, Lois Smith, Ann Morgan Guilbert, Elizabeth Berridge, Rebecca Budig
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Synopsis
Kate has a lot on her mind. There‘s the ethics problem of buying furniture on the cheap at estate sales and marking it up at her trendy Manhattan store. And how much markup can she get away with? There‘s the materialism problem of not wanting her teenage daughter to want the expensive things that Kate wants. There‘s the marriage problem of sharing a partnership in parenting, business and life with her husband Alex but sensing doubt nibbling at the foundations. And, there‘s Kate‘s free-floating 21st century malaise — the problem of how to live well and be a good person when poverty, homelessness, and sadness are always right outside the door. Plus, there‘s the neighbors: cranky, elderly Andra and the two granddaughters who look after her.
Kate (Catherine Keener) and Alex (Oliver Platt) and their teenage daughter Abby purchase the apartment next door in order to expand their two bedroom Manhattan apartment. Their only problem is the old cranky lady, Andra, living in it, and that they’ve got to wait for her to die. Andra is cared for by her sweet granddaughter Rebecca (Rebecca Hall) who has no life, and is blatantly rejected by her other highly cynical granddaughter, Mary (Amanda Peet). Simply waiting for Andra to die becomes complicated when the two families’ lives intersect, resulting in a dramatic comedy about love, death, and liberal guilt from Nicole Holofcener (“Friends with Money,” “Lovely & Amazing”).
A collection of breasts makes an appearance, all acquiring mammograms by Rebecca (Rebecca Hall), a technician, a young woman devoted to her 91-year-old grandmother, Andra (Ann Morgan Guilbert) so much so that she has no life other than adjusting to at least one date from hell. The film’s theme of white guilt is set on the soundtrack with The Roches’ rousing version of Paranoid Larry, Joe Shapiro and Neil Murphy’s “No Shoes”: “I had no shoes and I complained until I met a man who had no feet that’s really beat I had no feet and I complained until I met a man who had no knees…”
Catherine Keener is at the tale’s center as Kate, a guilt-ridden, middle-aged Gothamite who, together with her husband Alex (Oliver Platt), runs a store selling vintage furniture. They acquire their stock from the sons and daughters of people who have recently died, which makes Kate particularly uneasy when two customers ask her where they get their stuff. Kate and Alex are interested in the next-door grandmother as well, but not so altruistically. They’ve rented the apartment to her and are waiting for the elderly woman to die, which would allow them to break down the walls to expand their quarters. Rebecca’s sister, Mary (Amanda Peet), is a cosmetologist who unlike Rebecca has no interest in grandma, freely expressing her views that she considers the woman old and ready to die. And this is one of the comic touches.
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