With a generic title, you might wrongly dismiss Book Club as a boring tale of older women finding joy in their cats, and book club meetings. If you did, you are sorely mistaken. Plus, the Book Club cast is spectacular.
This film is a modern tale of love, good meetings, making right choices, and change. First off, everyone needs a lively book club. Books are important and can be fun, interesting and enlightening. As such conversations centred on exciting books are intriguing.
Most people believe that they can only maintain friendships with similar people. This movie throws that belief in the trash. The mix of a hip and overtly sexual, with a conservative judge, and a married one-man lady is a mix that ought to fail but is revealed to be a potent cocktail of fun and good vibes.
Everyone will find a character to relate with. The girl with the tough exterior who is gooey inside, the lady whose relationship needs a shakeup, the conservative who posits as a good girl but hides an inner freak. This is a clear testament to the flawless mixture that works in this movie.
The Book Club cast sells this movie. Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen and Mary Steenburgen are amazing in this movie leaving no doubt to their superior acting skills.
These actresses envelop you in their world reminding you that you’re watching acting veterans. You become engulfed with their every move and silently hope that they all achieve happiness.
The movie is filled with poignant lessons and is an incredible movie to watch alone or with friends. If you’re still not convinced, you might as well watch it to get a different meaning of Robert Frost’s The Road Not Taken.
Genre: Drama/Romance
Directed by: Bill Holderman
Distributed by: Paramount Pictures
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