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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
By Daniel Jolley TOP 50 REVIEWER
Format:DVD
I'll be honest -- I only watched this film because Jennifer Aniston is in it. Not surprisingly, I had a hard time relating to the film and figuring out how I felt about it. Early on, I was asking just how many characters are in this movie, as every scene seemed to throw more and more of them at me. About half-way through, I was questioning my decision to ever introduce myself to these Friends With Money (most of these characters can really be annoying). Then, somewhere between this point and the end -- despite the fact that the film doesn't seem to have much of a point to it -- I ended up liking it. I'm still not sure why. If the film does have any point at all, it would have to be the fact that money does not buy happiness. Only a couple of these characters are the least bit happy or content.

So we have this group of friends, all of whom are married and wealthy except for Olivia (Jennifer Aniston). We don't know when the friendship began, but the fact that the other women are significantly older than Olivia seems a little strange to me. Franny (Joan Cusack) and Matt (Greg Germann) are normal and happy, Christine (Catherine Keener) and her husband are normal and unhappy, and Jane (Frances McDormand) and Aaron (Simon McBurney) are neither normal nor happy -- actually, Aaron's happy but Jane is unhappy enough for the both of them. She's also borderline insane, as whatever midlife crisis she is going through compels her to go days and days and days without washing her hair and keys her up to fly off the handle at any given moment, spewing forth her bitterness at all the jerks and idiots in the world. Olivia has problems of her own; it's not that she's a maid, it's the fact that she is still hung up on this rascal of a married man who dumped her, has no direction in life, enjoys smoking pot, and is basically just floundering. She's not helpless by any means, but she is a real mess. Her friends, naturally enough, think she needs a man.

As Friends With Money approached the final turn and headed for the home stretch, I consciously wondered where this story was ultimately going -- the answer, of course, is nowhere. There is no true sense of conclusion to any of the film's sub-plots. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, as it represents a definite vision on the part of the director. One could also say it makes sense because all we have really done is step into these characters' lives for a brief time. We see it all, though -- their doubts, their fears, their discontentment and anger, everything. Jane tends to steal the show with her increasingly grungy appearance and frequent hissy fits, but all of these characters and their many and varied problems will doubtlessly strike many a chord with viewers. Christine's marital problems are especially relevant to many a married couple today, and I'm sure I'm not the only person in the world who can somewhat identify with Olivia's general malaise and lack of purpose.

I really haven't done a good job describing this movie, partly because Friends With Money just doesn't lend itself to easy explanation. We are talking about a modern, open-ended type of filmmaking here, and everyone will react differently to what he/she sees on the screen. Some will hate it, some will relate to it particularly well, and some may just go away with a sheepish look on their face. I think I somehow managed to do a little bit of all three.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Funny and touching movie that ends too soon! Aug 25 2006
By Kay TOP 1000 REVIEWER
Format:DVD
I really enjoyed this movie but it ended too soon! I wanted to know more about what happened to these four very different but loyal friends. The movie was funny but also very sad. This would have made a great television series where their lives are continued and explored.
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52 of 56 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Amigos April 7 2006
By MICHAEL ACUNA - Published on Amazon.com
Contrary to what the previews and trailers would lead you to believe, Nicole Holofcener's third film "Friends with Money" is not a belly laugh riot. In fact, though much of its concerns are humorous, it deals with very serious topics much like those that she dealt with in her previous film "Lovely and Amazing" .

Once again we are in West Los Angeles among the upwardly mobile with money, Nannies, Housekeepers and men that tend to lawns and pools.

Holofcener, like her East coast counterpart Woody Allen, is part of the scene on which she chooses to comment: she is not an interloper, she is one of them. Holofcener lives and works on the Westside of Los Angeles but she's enough of an artist to step back and objectively survey, comment and analyze all that she sees.

"Friends with Money's" is mainly an Olivia (Jennifer Anniston) concern as she is the house cleaner with friends mostly married and mostly upscale. Jane (a complex and pissed off Frances McDormand), Christine (as a usually conflicted and badly married Catherine Keener) and Franny (a warm hearted Joan Cusack) who are all rich and concerned about Olivia: eager to have her settled down so that they can go on with their lives. All three are alternately self-absorbed, and oblivious to the world around them yet love Olivia enough to care about what happens to her.

At her most unglamorous , Anniston makes the most of her role as a woman who is at a loss to make a success of her life: she is both emotionally and socially frozen and her only outlet is her friends...in other words she is lucky to have Jane, Franny and Christine...all of whom support her both emotionally and monetarily.

Director Holofcener knows this milieu very well and this transfers to the screen as compassion and understanding. She does not look down on those she chooses to eviscerate. Instead she steps back and reveals the foibles and fancies of a group of people of whom she feels a deep and thorough understanding. "Friends with Money" is a serious, complex and intelligent movie that despite its surface humor is a social and moral comment on par with anything that Woody Allen in his prime has ever committed to film..
18 of 18 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Funny, Insightful Look At Friendship April 10 2006
By thornhillatthemovies.com - Published on Amazon.com
Olivia (Jennifer Aniston) finds her friends, Franny (Joan Cusack), Christine (Catherine Keener) and Jane (Frances McDormand) are moving on without her. Franny stays at home with her two kids, while her husband (Greg Germann) works. Their relationship is good and their biggest decision is where they should make a large donation. Christine and her husband, David (Jason Isaacs) are screenwriters who work together, argue a lot and have decided to put a second floor extension on their house. Jane is a well-known fashion designer who loves her husband Aaron (Simon McBurney), who everyone thinks is gay. Olivia, on the other hand, cleans people's homes, having quit her job as a teacher at an exclusive school because the kids were making fun of her. She has trouble finding her place in life when all around her; everyone seems to be doing much better.

Nicole Holofcener's ("Lovely and Amazing") new film "Friends with Money" has some richly observed moments and some good laughs about adult friendship.

Olivia is Jennifer Aniston's best character since "The Good Girl". Unmotivated, slightly depressed and confused, Olivia clearly doesn't want a lot of pressure or obligation in her life, working as a maid in various people's homes. After she spends her day cleaning for others, she goes home and pines for the man she once loved, a married man who had an affair with her. Franny fixes her up with Mike (Scott Caan), her trainer, and they begin a relationship which doesn't seem to give Olivia a lot of joy.

As we watch Olivia wade through her pot-hazed life, Aniston portrays why this woman would feel this way, giving us a rich portrayal of a woman who doesn't do much. But we get why she would begin a relationship with Mike. We get why she calls her ex-boyfriend every night and hangs up. We understand her feelings of abandonment when she hangs around her once very close friends.

Really, with a supporting cast including Catherine Keener, Frances McDormand and Joan Cusack how could the film go wrong? Each is great as a very different friend to Olivia. Frances McDormand is the standout as Jane, the fashion designer who just turned 43 and seems to be experiencing a mid-life crisis. But Keener and Cusack are both very good as well. Each has their personal problems and problems with their relationship, but they are unique enough to be different.

There are some truly funny moments, the type of moments Woody Allen used to create for his very similar films. The dates between Olivia (Aniston) and Mike (Caan) are funny, unusual and painful to watch. Jane (McDormand) steals many of the scenes she is in, as she plays a fashion designer who is losing control. Unfortunately, I find myself getting annoyed at many of the same things her character does. I hope I can prevent going off the deep end. I'm getting close, but I hope I can watch stem the tide.

"Friends with Money" depicts a moment in these characters lives. The film is rich with detail, but spends time depicting their actions, their interactions and the results of their friendships. It doesn't move at a fast clip, but because we are watching the relationship unfold, we get the sense we are watching a group of real people. Like we are eavesdropping.
17 of 18 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars "Why don't they just give the money to the poor!" Aug 30 2006
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
Format:DVD
When Olivia (Jennifer Aniston) goes out to dinner with her three long-time best friends, Franny (Joan Cusack), Jane (Frances McDormand) and Christine (Catherine Keener), it always seems as though she's a bit of a fish out of water. Olivia is the only one that is single and lacks enough money and financial security to make her life really comfortable.

Her friends sort of know that she is constantly strapped for cash and that she now works as a maid, cleaning the houses of the wealthy Westsiders after she left her career as a schoolteacher because she just "couldn't handle it any more."

In Friends With Money, the wonderful new movie written and directed by Nicole Holofcener not much happens to Olivia but it doesn't matter because she - as well as well as her friends - are so well defined, funny and interesting. Does the amount of money you have really lead to happiness? Although, Olivier's yuppie friends are rich and the quality of their marriages differ, are their situations that different from Olivier's?

While Christine (Keener) and her husband and writing partner David (Jason Isaacs) spar over home renovations, fashion designer Jane (McDormand) has stopped washing her hair and seems to be going through some kind of forties mid-life crisis, wondering whether this is all there is. She spews hate at other drivers and at store managers, but her anger is often aimed at her sexually ambivalent husband Aaron (Simon McBurney) who seems to prefer the company of men to her.

The bourgeois comforts of Christine's career success appear to be breaking apart: is it a coincidence that David's petty insults about her weight gain and the neighbours' chilly reaction to their view-blocking annex escalate at the same time? Christine's tensions contrast with the parental bliss shared by her sympathetically affluent chum Franny (Cusak) and her wealthy husband, Matt (Greg Germann) who are about to donate two million dollars to their kid's school, even though the school probably doesn't need it.

Obviously, they all have money, but these self-obsessed, hard working people certainly have a lot issues to work through. Yet it is Olivia who seems to anchor the group. She's a wonderfully quirky character who goes from cosmetic counter to cosmetic counter in order to collect enough free samples to keep her complexion looking great. And when Franny hooks her up on a date with her luggish personal fitness instructor (Scott Caan) things don't work out exactly as Olivia planned.

The actresses are all phenomenal, the writing is pitch-perfect and the direction is crisp and droll. Poor Olivia - her large-living friends don't quite know what to make of her, or what to do for her. They obviously love her, but are driven to constantly ridicule her lack of ambition and her lack of income. And the fact that she smokes pot and has been carrying on an affair with a married man is a constant source of discomfort for them.

Aniston, especially shines, she's absolutely charming and very likable without dominating the film, which divvies up the goods with great equability among its idiosyncratic and often argumentative characters. Friends With Money is such an "LA" movie, and Holofcener, to her credit, has really managed to capture all the insecurities, petty quirks and foibles of this very upper-middle class Westside set, in all their self-congratulatory and pretentious grandeur. Mike Leonard August 06.
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