Director:
Bill Holderman
Starring:
Diane Keaton
Jane Fonda
Candice Bergman
Mary Steenburgen
Plot:
Four lifelong friends have their lives forever changed after reading 50 Shades of Grey in their monthly book club.
Review:
I find it incredible that four friends have managed to hold a book club for so long. I think they said forty years but I could be off. That’s amazing.
Each of the women were unique in their current relationship status, all believable though somewhat out there, and all at a crossroads. Really, the fact that they were reading the 50 Shades trilogy had very little to do with the story and seems like someone just thought it would be funny for older women to be reading it.
The movie was sweet and I really enjoyed it, but it wasn’t one that stuck with me afterwards. I really appreciated watching a romance that wasn’t staring the typical young white woman, though, the only real change was the age of the women. However, there aren’t many romance movies with women of a certain age so that was a welcome change. Maybe as I get older it will resonate with me more. As is it’s definitely something I would recommend, but not a movie I would re-watch frequently.
4/5
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