This movie is almost exclusively about old people and old relationships. Jane Fonda is the main star, she will be 86 before the end of this year, 2023. An old friend dies, Fonda's character has an old, 50-something year, grudge against the surviving husband, played by Malcolm Mcdowell. We have no idea what it is all about but we know she intends to kill him that weekend. And she tells him that. (All revealed in the trailer, no spoilers.)
So that is what this movie is about. Confronting and trying to settle old issues. Near the end of the movie all is explained, we understand why she feels so strongly, we sympathize with her feelings, yet we also know that murder is not the soultion to settling an old animosity.
Fonda plays the older woman on edge, a hair-trigger edge. Tomlin plays her character the opposite, live and let live, let old bygones be bygones. Mcdowell plays the old man very well.
In total there isn't much to this movie once it is all done and all is revealed. Yes, we can have great sympathy for Fonda's character but it makes you wonder "Why did she wait so long?"
In general, while neither of them are my favorites, I enjoy the acting of Fonda and Tomlin, I have seen them in so many roles, like Fonda in 'Barbarella' in 1968, that it is almost like I know them. I am glad I took the time to watch the movie, my wife chose to skip after she watched the trailer.
So that is what this movie is about. Confronting and trying to settle old issues. Near the end of the movie all is explained, we understand why she feels so strongly, we sympathize with her feelings, yet we also know that murder is not the soultion to settling an old animosity.
Fonda plays the older woman on edge, a hair-trigger edge. Tomlin plays her character the opposite, live and let live, let old bygones be bygones. Mcdowell plays the old man very well.
In total there isn't much to this movie once it is all done and all is revealed. Yes, we can have great sympathy for Fonda's character but it makes you wonder "Why did she wait so long?"
In general, while neither of them are my favorites, I enjoy the acting of Fonda and Tomlin, I have seen them in so many roles, like Fonda in 'Barbarella' in 1968, that it is almost like I know them. I am glad I took the time to watch the movie, my wife chose to skip after she watched the trailer.