My wife and I watched this at home on BluRay from our local library. We weren't sure if it would be entertaining enough so agreed to watch the first 18 minutes and switch to something else if we weren't "invested."
The timer went off at 18 minutes, I stopped the movie, and asked if we should continue. My wife said "Yes, it is pretty entertaining."
I admit I was often entertained too, we are near the ages of the actresses and can identify loosely with the premise, although we still live in our own home in a conventional neighborhood.
Diane Keaton, who is 3 months younger than me, had money in the project, she is a producer. She also is the main character, Martha, who has been living in her NYC home for 40 years, has just gotten an unfavorable diagnosis and refuses to go the chemotherapy route. So she has an estate sale to get rid of everything and takes a road trip down to a modern retirement community in Georgia.
All that happens quickly as the movie opens, everything else happens at the retirement community. Martha just wants to be left alone, but they have a rule, you need to belong to at least one organization and if you can't find one that appeals to you then you can form a new one ... with the approval of the board. So she gets 7 other "girls" together and forms a pom-pom group, cheerleaders with no team to cheer for.
There are some interesting interactions, including with high school cheerleaders, there is an arc of friendship of Martha with the others. I would think this wouldn't interest the younger generation very much but I believe all of us over a certain age can find some things to enjoy about this movie.
The timer went off at 18 minutes, I stopped the movie, and asked if we should continue. My wife said "Yes, it is pretty entertaining."
I admit I was often entertained too, we are near the ages of the actresses and can identify loosely with the premise, although we still live in our own home in a conventional neighborhood.
Diane Keaton, who is 3 months younger than me, had money in the project, she is a producer. She also is the main character, Martha, who has been living in her NYC home for 40 years, has just gotten an unfavorable diagnosis and refuses to go the chemotherapy route. So she has an estate sale to get rid of everything and takes a road trip down to a modern retirement community in Georgia.
All that happens quickly as the movie opens, everything else happens at the retirement community. Martha just wants to be left alone, but they have a rule, you need to belong to at least one organization and if you can't find one that appeals to you then you can form a new one ... with the approval of the board. So she gets 7 other "girls" together and forms a pom-pom group, cheerleaders with no team to cheer for.
There are some interesting interactions, including with high school cheerleaders, there is an arc of friendship of Martha with the others. I would think this wouldn't interest the younger generation very much but I believe all of us over a certain age can find some things to enjoy about this movie.