Director: Bill Holderman
Genre: Comedy/
Drama/ Romance
Runtime: 104
minutes
Year:
2018
Starring: Diane
Keaton, Mary Steenburgen, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen, Andy Garcia, Craig T.
Nelson, Don Johnson, Richard Dreyfuss, Alicia Silverstone, Ed Begley Jr.,
Wallace Shaw
I WATCHED THIS MOVIE FOR MY 2023 MOVIE CHALLENGE.
WEEK 4: A MOVIE WITH A MAINLY FEMALE CAST
Description: Four
lifelong friends have their lives forever changed after reading “50 Shades of
Grey” in their monthly book club.
Review: The modern
mature woman isn’t sitting home alone drinking tea surrounded by cats, but she’s
active, worldly and has a healthy appetite for love and sex. The classic
TV-series “The Golden Girls” already showed us this many years ago.
In “Book Club” we meet four long time friends, who
started a book club when they were in college and are still standing strong.
Amon them are Diane, who lost her husband a year ago and is now constantly
checked on by her overprotective daughters, when she meets a charming pilote
that sweeps her off of her feet. Vivian, a successful hotel owner who has never
married and has no intention to, until she encounters an old flame. Sharon, a
federal judge, who has no love life whatsoever, after her divorce many years
ago, when she discovers online dating. And Carol, who has been married for many
years and is missing the spark in her relationship. The four women decide to
read “50 Shades of Grey” for their book club, which will forever change their
lives.
I love stories about book clubs, people talking about
books and learning from them in their real life. “50 Shades of Grey” is not the
kind of book to read for a book club in my opinion, because it’s so bad.
Especially for this group of book veterans. And it feels a bit outdated, they
should have done this movie when the books weren’t turned into movies yet
(which are equally terrible, probably even worse). That’s why I have always
loved “The Jane Austen Book Club”, these people read actual good books and
discuss them in depth. In “Book Club” they whole element of the book club is
just a fraction of it all. And even though I did enjoy the characters and their
individual story, I would have preferred there to be more book discussions
between the women. They hardly talk about the book.
They missed the mark on this and it was released at
the wrong moment.
Rating: 2
/ 5
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