Please Give
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Comedy. Drama
In New York City, a husband and wife butt heads with the granddaughters of the elderly woman who lives in apartment the couple owns. Kate (Catherine Keener) and Alex (Oliver Platt), a married couple who run a successful business reselling estate-sale furniture, live in Manhattan with their teenage daughter, Abby. Wanting to expand their two-bedroom apartment, they buy the unit next door, planning to knock the walls out. However, before ... [+]
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"One of the best movies of the year so far. An insightful, darkly funny and multi-layered character study about class and family" | ||||
"A muted, almost Rohmer-like moral tale that doesn't quite dive deeply enough into its several characters (...) Nicole Holofcener has made perhaps the ultimate New York movie" | ||||
"This gorgeous film, always tender and sometimes dark, is a deeply resonant comic drama" | ||||
"Some people might find it distasteful to make a movie about guilty rich folks who give themselves permission to splurge. Others will rightly appreciate the honesty." | ||||
"The cast is uniformly spectacular, infusing the characters with nuance and complexity." | ||||
"Two possible ways of regarding 'Please Give': It's shallow. Or maybe it's deeply shallow." | ||||
"An indie with real pedigree and smarts" | ||||
"A movie as generous, stingy, and biting - and memorable - as its six main characters." |
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