2010 · comedy · drama · music
Please Give
Directed by Nicole Holofcener1h 30m2010
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.
Our read: Please Give (2010) reads as a neutral, measured, grounded comedy · drama · music entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, measured, gentle comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- measured
- gentle
- intimate
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“You want sharp NYC comedy about liberal guilt, aging neighbors, and messy ethics.”
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