Thursday, May 13, 2010

PLEASE GIVE




Comedy

PRINCIPAL CAST MEMBERS
Rebecca Hall: radiology technician Rebecca
Amanda Peet: her sister Mary, a cosmetologist
Ann Guilbert: their 90-something-year-old grandmother Andra
Catherine Keener: Kate, proprietor of an antique furniture store
Oliver Platt: her business partner and husband Alex
Sarah Steele: their 15-year-old daughter Abby
Thomas Ian Nicholas: 20-something Eugene

REVIEW
Promoted as a comedy there are no “laugh-out-loud” situations. Instead there are some moderately amusing moments, much like a TV sit-com.

The problem is the issues they confront are not of themselves funny: being homeless or taking advantage of people or being old and cantankerous is nothing to laugh at. To this add the fact that some of the situations seem forced and less than believable.

For the most part the acting is first-rate but that of itself is not reason enough to spend and hour and a half watching this one.

CLASSIFICATION
for language, some sexual content and nudity.

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