A difficult movie to understand, as the action moves from a funeral, to a roadside fair, to a wedding reception, to a bar, and back to somebody's house, without any sense of purpose to the meanderings. Meanwhile the viewer is left to untangle the various relationships and understand what these five women have in
common. Eventually, the lights do begin to come on, but by that time one has forgotten what the questions were. That these five women share a common bond is the one sure thing. Figuring out what forged that bond is the challenge, should you decide to accept it. Mildly entertaining, but no deep philosophical answers to be found here. These women are friends, at different points in their lives, moving in different directions, and will probably not be able to find much common ground for very much longer. But for this one night, they are united in a quest to rekindle what they had in school. Whether that was high school or college is never revealed. Given some of the revelations, one hopes it was college.
September 7, 2010
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