An unfortunate waste of talent
Added 11/29/2009
The general plot of the story is centered around Jennifer Anniston's character, a 30 something School Teacher cum Domestic who has lost her way in life and retreated into a mundane, unchallanging routine, dating unlikely romantic prospects (extremely unlikely) as her affluent friends (beset by their own mid-life issues) pitch in now and again to help her escape her downward spiral.
There are some truely outstanding talents in this cast.
That is the only reason that the audience might care what happens to them.
The dialog (that screams for comedic relief) is an ongoing exposition of mid-life angst.
The date scenes are almost painful to watch.
Does one really need to pay to see this?
The writer/director dropped the ball on this one, exposing a crushing, deep rooted ennui rather than writing something that might entertain, be poinant..... elict some emotion other than apathy.
Given what this cast must have added to humanize this script, I might recommend that the writer seek professional help as quickly as possible. She has other credits considerably more memorable than this, clear evidence that a writer should not tackle a comedy while popping Prozak (I'm guessing on this last, but can't imagine being far off the mark).
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Fun Film.
Added 6/25/2009
This was a fun film and arrived in pristine condition AND on time! Thanks!
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For the 35+year old viewer only
Added 6/13/2009
If you are not at least in your mid-thirties you will not get anything out of this movie, so do not bother seeing it. You really need at least 15 or 20 post college years under you belt before this movie you will resonate with you at all.
As a woman in that 35 and above range, I found this movie really interesting. It is not particularly funny, certainly not uplifting,was pretty leisurely paced, and with a lot of characters who mostly made me feel irritated and impatient. But it is a very true slice of life in which I can see my life and the lives of my married friends.
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I bought this out of curiosity to see the new Jennifer Aniston movie more than anything else. The movie sucked balls. After watching it I wanted to jam a screwdriver into my brain to erase the memory of having wasted precious minutes of my life watching this pointless meandering drivel. I donated the DVD along with a bunch of other really bad movies (Sideways, etc) to the local library.
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Jennifer Aniston a maid? Yeah, right.....
Added 1/21/2009
We all know that Jennifer Aniston the actress is attractive, classy, and glamorous. The character she plays in this movie is pretty much the same thing. This begs the question: how the heck would someone like that ever end up having to clean other people's toilets for a living?
You keep waiting for a credible explanation--perhaps she suffers from severe neuroses, some oddball personality traits, maybe she suffered some horrible trauma as a child that has rendered her a total basket case...anything that would explain why she does not avail herself of the opportunities readily available to people like her.
But no. All we see is a tall, slim, good-looking white woman with great hair and clothes who walks and talks with the poise and confidence of the privileged upper middle class. We're supposed to believe that someone like this can't find any other job and has to compete against non-English speaking immigrants to find houses to clean for a living? The premise is simply not believable, and the whole thing falls flat as a result.
There are plenty of glamorous actresses who play against type very effectively (Michelle Williams and Anne Hathaway, to name a couple recent examples). But that ain't happening in this movie.
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An unfortunate waste of talent
Added 11/29/2009
The general plot of the story is centered around Jennifer Anniston's character, a 30 something School Teacher cum Domestic who has lost her way in life and retreated into a mundane, unchallanging routine, dating unlikely romantic prospects (extremely unlikely) as her affluent friends (beset by their own mid-life issues) pitch in now and again to help her escape her downward spiral.
There are some truely outstanding talents in this cast.
That is the only reason that the audience might care what happens to them.
The dialog (that screams for comedic relief) is an ongoing exposition of mid-life angst.
The date scenes are almost painful to watch.
Does one really need to pay to see this?
The writer/director dropped the ball on this one, exposing a crushing, deep rooted ennui rather than writing something that might entertain, be poinant..... elict some emotion other than apathy.
Given what this cast must have added to humanize this script, I might recommend that the writer seek professional help as quickly as possible. She has other credits considerably more memorable than this, clear evidence that a writer should not tackle a comedy while popping Prozak (I'm guessing on this last, but can't imagine being far off the mark).
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Fun Film.
Added 6/25/2009
This was a fun film and arrived in pristine condition AND on time! Thanks!
0 out of 0 people found this helpful.
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For the 35+year old viewer only
Added 6/13/2009
If you are not at least in your mid-thirties you will not get anything out of this movie, so do not bother seeing it. You really need at least 15 or 20 post college years under you belt before this movie you will resonate with you at all.
As a woman in that 35 and above range, I found this movie really interesting. It is not particularly funny, certainly not uplifting,was pretty leisurely paced, and with a lot of characters who mostly made me feel irritated and impatient. But it is a very true slice of life in which I can see my life and the lives of my married friends.
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