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In New York City, a husband and wife butt heads with the granddaughters of the elderly woman who lives in the apartment the couple owns.

Catherine Keener as  Kate
Amanda Peet as  Mary
Oliver Platt as  Alex
Rebecca Hall as  Rebecca
Ann Morgan Guilbert as  Andra
Lois Smith as  Mrs. Portman
Sarah Steele as  Abby
Thomas Ian Nicholas as  Eugene
Elizabeth Keener as  Cathy
Elise Ivy as  Marissa

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Reviews

meeza
2010/04/30

Please give me a few minutes of your time to read my punhilistic review of the indie comedy "Please Give". Well-renowned Independent film director Nicole Holofcener has given us another fine character-driven talky film. Holofcener- regular Catherine Keener stars as Kate, a middle-age owner of a used goods store which she runs with her husband Alex. Alex and Kate have a teenage daughter named Abby who is going thorough the standard adolescent angst. Kate is a giver and has a habit of giving out food and money to the homeless. She is almost like a homeless person's "quasi-groupie"; sort of speak. On the home-front, Kate and Alex would give their right nostrils for their older geriatric neighbor Andra to give herself to heaven or hell, so they can then expand their apartment when the walls come crumbling down. The problem is that Andra is like an infinite android who is ha ha ha ha stayin' alive, stayin' alive; Andra is not the sweetest granny on the block either. Andra's granddaughters Rebecca & Mary look after her with random visits; Sweet Rebecca being more the caretaker and egocentric Mary being more a la Jack Nicholson caretaker in "The Shining". I would give you more subplot points of "Please Give", but I would then be giving you too much information and thereby would ruin the viewing experience of this enjoyable little movie. Holofconer, who also scribed the film, once again excels in writing engaging characters. Her direction was also very sharp. Someone please give this woman an Oscar nomination already! The "Please Give" cast was giving it, giving it, giving it right. The consistent Keener once again shined with her Kate work. Oliver Platt was hilarious as the clever Alex. And the sister act of Rebecca Hall as Rebecca and Amanda Peet as Mary excelled in their astute performances. Hall continues to impress with every role. Ann Morgan Guilbert was grand as the scene-stealer granny Andra. Sarah Steele was not exactly a scene- stealer, but she was very impressive in her first acting performance playing the "craving for $200 jeans" teen Abby. I also enjoyed the bit performances of Thomas Ian Nicholas as Rebecca's vertically-challenged new boyfriend, and of Lois Smith as his grandma. "Please Give" has all the indie film ingredients that gives it cinematic justice. And even though I have exceeded my punmeter in this review by giving you way too many undesired puns, I still do desire that you please give 90 minutes of your time with a "Please Give" experience. I do care if you don't give a ….. so please give it a chance! ***** Excellent

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rogerdarlington
2010/05/01

Many will class this independent work a woman's film - and it is true that the writer- director is a woman (New York-born Nicole Holofcener who is sometimes called the female Woody Allen), three of the four main roles are taken by (attractive) women (Catherine Keener, Amanda Peet and Rebecca Hall), and three of the four support roles are filled by women (two very elderly and one very young). But it would be a mistake to pigeon-hole this movie which is full of wryly humorous and insightful observations on the human condition.Set in Holofcener's New York, this is a character-driven movie with minimal plotting. It concerns the occupants of and visitors to a couple of next-door apartments: a middle- aged husband (Oliver Platt) and his do-gooder wife (Keener) who are planning to expand into the accommodation of an aged woman looked after in very different ways by her daughters (Peet and Hall). At the heart of the narrative is the eternal question: what does it mean to be good.

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Eumenides_0
2010/05/02

When does caring too much become a problem? This question plagues the lives of Rebecca (Rebecca Hall) and Cathy (Catherine Keener), two women who have in common the 91-year-old Andra (Ann Morgan Guilbert). Andra is Rebecca's grandmother and Cathy's neighbour. Rebecca, a radiology technician, has given up a personal life to take care of her grandmother. Cathy, who owns a mid-century furniture store, can't wait for Andra to die so she can break through the old lady's apartment and expand her own. Rebecca helps people at work; Cathy buys valuable furniture at cheap prices from naïve people who want to quickly dispose of their dead relatives' possessions. Cathy has a family – a husband, Alex (Oliver Platt), and a teenage daughter, Abby (Sarah Steele); she has financial success. But, unlike Rebecca, she doesn't have peace of mind. Taking advantage of people's vulnerability starts taking a toll on her. She starts feeling guilty. We all like to see ourselves as better people than we are and we try to demonstrate (at least to ourselves) our goodness. Cathy tries to assuage her guilt in many ways: she refuses to buy her daughter expensive clothes; she sanctimoniously preaches about helping the homeless. She even volunteers to help the elderly.Please Give is as much a movie about caring as it is about guilt, in its many forms. Cathy, for all her opulence, only has a happy life on the surface; and Rebecca, without a life, seems to take pleasure from her job and from caring for her grandmother. As the movie opens their lives have started moving in opposite directions: Rebecca meets a potential boyfriend through one of her patients and starts living a bit; whereas Cathy grows more distant from her daughter, going through her rebellious phase, and from Alex, who meets Rebecca's sister, Mary (Amanda Peet), and starts an affair with her.Please Give is a typical indie comedy/drama: the story doesn't move towards a resolution or climax, it just captures slices of these character's lives at crucial moments. The goal isn't physical, the conflict is wholly internal. These characters wrestle only with feelings, ideas and their social functions: Abby, like any self-centred teen, deals with her pimples, which make her feel like a monster; Rebecca slips into the role of the good granddaughter because there's no one else to fill it. Mary only cares about herself, retaining her beauty and stalking her ex-boyfriend's girlfriend to understand why he dumped her for her (Mary's shallow, unbearable personality may be a clue). Cathy seeks atonement.Andra, we find out, also volunteered in the past. And yet she's a very spiteful person. Mary didn't like her. We can intimate that Andra has always been a disagreeable person. Her daughter killed herself with pills. Was she fed up with Andra? Did Andra take up volunteering because she felt guilty? Cathy's guilt, in the context of Andra's blaming herself for her daughter's suicide, seems very petty. What she does isn't really that horrible, is it? She tricks people, yes, but, like she says, if not her someone else would. At which point does guilt become just vanity? Some people carry it like a badge of honour. This is Cathy: she preaches to her daughter about spending too much money on jeans, she gives leftovers to the homeless. But she continues to sell expensive furniture that she bought almost for free. This movie is better appreciated if we go prepared to see the irony in it.In 2010 good dramas were built on invisible, metaphysical goals. What was Hereafter about but the attempt to understand and be at peace with death? What did Another Year show but characters fighting the meaninglessness of life? In Black Swan a ballerina struggled with the most intangible of quests: the search for perfection; and even if I disliked the movie I must praise it for its audacity. Not all characters must have clear, material goals. Please Give follows in this vein in its exploration of the private world of its characters.This type of plot can make a movie look like a shattered mirror: some scenes shine in themselves, but the whole reflects a fragmented imaged. The solution is having coincidences wrap everything up, like in Hereafter, or just accepting that real life doesn't follow a linear path towards closure. So Please Give feels a bit disjointed, incomplete, but this is more a movie of scenes that float independently in our heads.The actors, with the help of a witty screenplay, deliver excellent performances, with particular compliments to Catherine Keener and Rebecca Hall. The actors don't light up the screen but that's because the script calls for subtlety rather than theatrics. Steele captures the selfishness of teenagers; Platt does a great job as the husband tired of living with his wife like a business partner. Peet and Guilbert compete for the most annoying personality and it's a testament to their talent that their rudeness and callousness doesn't make them any less fascinating than the others.I think whether people will like this movie or not depends greatly about their approach to life: those who see the world as a big joke will probably love it. Those who take life too seriously may not like the movie's message. What should the limits of caring be? Ourselves? Our family and friends? The whole world full of strangers? Are we selfish if we don't care about the suffering of others? Or should we carry the world's problems on our back? How we answer these questions defines what we'll get from Please Give.

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kimi_layercake
2010/05/03

"Please Give" is the story of a husband and wife who butt heads with the granddaughters of the elderly woman who lives in apartment the couple owns, how things are intertwined and how circumstances eventually gets to them in both right and wrong way.Cast-wise, pretty good. Oliver Platt is very likable as the cool and flirty husband, with Catherine Keener playing his better half wondrously. Rebecca Hall is the core of this movie, giving a very powerful performance of a doting granddaughter, who sacrifices a lot for taking care of her grandmother. Amanda Peet does decently in her role of a beauty conscious stony-hearted sister of Rebecca Hall. A special mention for the two grandmothers, who were very natural in their act."Please Give" is not entertaining; neither will it remain in your mind for quite some time. It might get irksome someplace, but having said, it's because it has been made in a very lifelike or rather natural, devoid of unnecessary cheap entertaining stuffs. It gets funny most of the times, but not ROFL stuff. It's decent enough to be enjoyable.Overall, "Please Give" is a sincere attempt to portray the life of two neighbors and their twist with life, once they get to know each other well or rather unwell. It's not recommended for people seeking fun and entertainment. Rather, it's a movie for someone looking for a mild funny, mild serious (non)-family movie.My Verdict: 6/10

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