Book Club
Book Club
PG-13 | 18 May 2018 (USA)
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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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GamerTab

That was an excellent one.

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BootDigest

Such a frustrating disappointment

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Dynamixor

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

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Jenni Devyn

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

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celine-honores

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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Prismark10

This tiresome and ineffectual female friendly romantic comedy fails because the target audience that includes my wife was more busy looking at her Facebook notifications rather than watching the film. I think the script was knocked off by a computer artificial intelligence software which was programmed to write a movie that older women might want to watch.All I can say is that the computer needs to be re-programmed.This film has four Oscar winners. Diane (Diane Keaton) is ditzy, afraid to fly and widowed after 40 years of marriage. Vivian (Jane Fonda) is a hotel tycoon who prefers short term relationships without marriage.Carol's (Mary Steenburgen) marriage needs spicing up. Sharon (Candice Bergen) is a Judge whose ex husband has got engaged to a much younger woman. The book club meets regularly and their latest novel is 50 Shades of Grey which leads the women to seek fulfilment from men. Diane meets a nice and wealthy airline pilot (Andy Garcia.) Vivian hooks up with an old flame from four decades ago (Don Johnson.) Sharon tries out internet dating and meets a date (Richard Dreyfuss.) I did note that all three actors are younger than their respective co-stars, even Dreyfuss.This is a lazily plotted and tedious film. It has bland characters, hard to believe and wastes the talent on screen.

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ozjosh03

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

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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