Please Give

Director: Nicole Holofcener
Writer: Nicole Holofcener
Cast: Catherine Keener, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt, Rebecca Hall, Sarah Steele, Ann Guilbert
Theatrical Release Date: April 30, 2010 6:16 AM
Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics
Criticwire: B
On The Web Film Website IMDB Entry

Synopsis: 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 doing so, they have to wait for the occupant, Andra, a cranky elderly woman, to die. The wait becomes complicated when the family develops relationships with Andra and her two grown granddaughters. [Synopsis courtesy of Sundance Film Festival]

Reviews

Big Screen | Holofcener and a "Human Centipede" Lead Debuts

Both among early-in-the-season picks on indieWIRE's summer movie preview, there might not be a more inappropriate double feature than Nicole Holofcener's "Please Give" and Tom Six's "The Human Centipede." One is a light-hearted morality tale about a bunch of inter-connected New Yorkers negotiating t...
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Small Screen | This Week's Top 5 Takes Us to Upstate NY, South Africa, Japan, and Vietnam

From Upstate New York to South Africa, all around New York City, and a trip back in time to Japan and Vietnam, this week's small screen must-sees take us all around the world. Without further ado, here are this week's top picks on TV, DVD, and VOD:
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Interviews

Bittersweet Charity: Nicole Holofcener Aims to Provoke and Delight with "Please Give"

The opening salvo of "Please Give," Nicole Holofcener's latest indie dramady, confronts the viewer with a montage of female breasts - small, large, flabby, old - that, in one darkly ironic stroke, subverts an entire history of how women's bodies have been portrayed in art.
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HONOR ROLL 2010 | "Please Give" Director Nicole Holofcener

EDITOR'S NOTE: This is part of a daily December series that will feature new or previously published interviews, profiles and first-persons of some of the year's best filmmakers, writers, actors and actresses. This edition is a profile of Nicole Holofcener, director of recent Spirit Award nominee "P...
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