FRIENDS WITH MONEY
RYAN: I’m very excited! A lot of good movies are starting to come out.
CAROLINE: Finally! And we had the pleasure of seeing this movie with a veritable plethora of our friends.
RYAN: Indeed. It was a really new Ryaline experience. We were joined by Cosmo and Julia…
CAROLINE: Jenny, Kathleen, and my friend Meighan as well. Good times had by all.
RYAN: Fabulous friends and fabulash film.
CAROLINE: And some popcorn.
RYAN: So what happened in this movie?
CAROLINE: Well, this is a film directed by Nicole Holofcener, and I love her and I’ve loved everything she’s ever done and she’s directed “Sex and the City” and I love that show. So I came in wanting to like this movie… and I did.
RYAN: I’m really surprised by this movie. I thought it was really interesting. It was kind of a new genre for me. It wasn’t a romantic comedy. It wasn’t a drama but it had all those elements in it. It was almost like a film about reality.
CAROLINE: It is. She does that a lot. She does real slice-of-life, heavy on the relationships – womens’ relationships with each other, love relationships, and I love that. And Catherine Keener is always in her movies which works for me.
RYAN: Catherine Keener looked great.
CAROLINE: I will say, I did notice – all these women and no plastic surgery, right?
RYAN: No Botox for sure.
CAROLINE: I mean, maybe a stray nose job here and there but these are real women, ladies and gentlemen.
RYAN: And it’s fantastic to see. I think they all look great. Joan Cusack looks fantastic.
CAROLINE: She was really great and I have to say, in a movie like this, if it weren’t actresses we love, we probably wouldn’t be as into the movie as we were.
RYAN: Fantastic cast and I have to say: Frances McDormand stole the show.
CAROLINE: Oh, she was hilarious!!
RYAN: I could see her getting another Oscar nom for this.
CAROLINE: She was HI-larious, if I may be so bold.
RYAN: You may. I loved her. She looked great. And speaking of other people who looked great, there’s a hot, hot man in this mew-vie.
CAROLINE: There’s a couple hot men in this movie!
RYAN: I was happy to see Ally McBeal’s Greg Germann, whom I adore.
CAROLINE: Yes, he’s fun.
RYAN: And I was especially happy to see Jason Isaacs; aka Lucius Malfoy of the Harry Potter movies…
CAROLINE: Wait, Ryan, do you like Harry Potter?
RYAN: He was looking hot, hot, hot.
CAROLINE: Yeah, he’s H-O-T. When you first said, I was like, “Ehh,” and then a couple of scenes later I was like, “Oh yeah, I see it.”
RYAN: He may be my #2 right behind Ewan McGregor.
CAROLINE: Really?! A bold statement.
RYAN: Well, who else?
CAROLINE: Clive Owen!
RYAN: He’s your #1.
CAROLINE: At the moment, yes.
RYAN: There was a lot of gay humor in this movie. Jokes about gay-ness. But I think it was gay humor for a straight audience because I, as a gay, didn’t find it that funny.
CAROLINE: Some of it was funny.
RYAN: I almost felt offended.
CAROLINE: Well, it’s a very straight, suburban look at what gay could be.
RYAN: Exactly.
CAROLINE: Final thought?
RYAN: Sure.
CAROLINE: It’s a small movie, not for everyone I’d venture to say. But if you like well-acted, very real, almost indie types of movies, I think this will be right up your alley.
RYAN: I think it’s a really great character study, as they’ve been called. The issues were interesting and we could definitely universally relatable themes.
CAROLINE: Yes, it’s a real-life look at marriage.
RYAN: Great performances and overall relatively satisfying except for the end.
CAROLINE: I feel like she usually ends her movies abruptly. It never all ties up at the end.
RYAN: And this is an abrupt end.