Friends With Money (2006)
The title serves as the film’s warning: this is about rich people with rich-people-problems. Three girlfriends have all of life’s advantages, but still they’re unhappy. Frances McDormand, in a frighteningly realistic performance, is angry at unfairness in the world. Joan Cusack is afraid her grammar school son might be gay. Catherine Keener bickers with her husband. To less affluent moviegoers, these couples seem impossible to relate to. Enter the fourth friend: a low-class housecleaner who smokes pot, steals expensive moisturizer for self-pedicures, and calls her married ex-lover at home. Believe it or not, that fourth friend is played by Jennifer Aniston, who gives a surprisingly good performance.
Through Aniston’s character, audiences are given permission to resent the wealthy Friends with Money, and at the same time, wonder what problems they might have if they belonged to that echelon. This is not an uplifting movie, and if you’re already in a depressed mood, I wouldn’t really recommend it. However, I own this movie, so I obviously like it enough to watch it over and over. Give it a try, when you’re not already terribly blue, and see if you like it.
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Through Aniston’s character, audiences are given permission to resent the wealthy Friends with Money, and at the same time, wonder what problems they might have if they belonged to that echelon. This is not an uplifting movie, and if you’re already in a depressed mood, I wouldn’t really recommend it. However, I own this movie, so I obviously like it enough to watch it over and over. Give it a try, when you’re not already terribly blue, and see if you like it.
More Jennifer Aniston movies here!