A widowed, racist, and all around mucho ungracious landlord (Michael Douglas) begrudgingly falls in love with an equally companionless tenant (Diane Keaton) best known for continually sabotaging her budding career as a chanteuse by working her dead husband’s aneurism into the between-song patter. It begins to curdle early on when …
Woody Allen's approximately autobiographical movie tells of the short-lived romance between a New York Jewish intellectual (Allen himself, accoutered in a thrift-shop wardrobe) and a kooky Midwestern WASP (Diane Keaton). It can usefully be thought of as a movie tailored to the critics. It is Allen's most "personal" movie (no …
More like At Middlington, amirite, fellas? Stolid dramedy that plays like a Boomer fantasy of what Gen Xers must be feeling now that their kids are heading off to college. Vera Farmiga, never less than fascinating, is in full wacky Diane Keaton mode as a free-spirit mom with a Type …
Relationship comedy, high-strung, low-stooping. As a meddlesome mother determined to marry off her third daughter, Diane Keaton is required to be both irritating and irresistible. She half succeeds. First half of the equation only. Although not without a certain slouching charm, Mandy Moore ("Actually, I love to sing") comes in …
The doctored picture that kicks things off — four badly photoshopped heads to represent 40 years of friendship — sets a tone of fierce laziness for an impotent sex comedy about four yentas committing to reading the 50 Shades trilogy. Our lettered leading ladies — Jane Fonda, Diane Keaton, Mary …
Four best friends take their book club to Italy for the fun girls trip they never had. When things go off the rails and secrets are revealed, their relaxing vacation turns into a once-in-a-lifetime cross-country adventure. Starring Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen, and Mary Steenburgen.
Four best friends take their book club to Italy for the fun girls trip they never had. When things go off the rails and secrets are revealed, their relaxing vacation turns into a once-in-a-lifetime cross-country adventure. Starring Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen, and Mary Steenburgen.
Diane Keaton, Jessica Lange, and Sissy Spacek, who don't have much in the way of family resemblance, are three Southern weird sisters (to risk a redundancy), rather like the heroines of three disparate Tennessee Williams plays assembled for a sitcom pilot. Keaton is an aging virgin afflicted with a "shrunken …
In Utah settings, Lawrence Kasdan directs other veterans — Diane Keaton, Kevin Kline, Dianne Wiest, Richard Jenkins, and Sam Shepard — plus a canine that seems their main interest, along with the problems of aging. Less an ’80s time capsule than a forgotten file, it mostly wanders around looking for …
Christmas comedy about the gathering of a clan, and allies, in snowy New England at the holiday. The core family, name of Stone, numbers seven, so a lot is afoot: terminal cancer, a pregnancy, a gay-couple adoption (minorities within the minority: the couple is interracial and one-half hearing impaired), an …
Charles Shyer's remake of the Vincente Minnelli comedy, but broadened as though by rolling pin, and out of concern that anyone seeing the 1950 original might not be able to recognize it as a comedy. ("Welcome to the Nineties," says the swishy, adenoidal, German-accented wedding co-ordinator.) Steve Martin falling into …
The original Father of the Bride -- meaning the 1950 one, not the 1991 one -- had a better name for its sequel, Father's Little Dividend. But dividend has three syllables in it, and its definition doesn't denote sequel, so.... Besides which, Part II isn't a literal remake of the …
Matrimonial, as opposed to occupational, 9 to 5, with three high-wattage actresses exacting rah-rah revenge on the husbands who dumped them for younger women. The tripartite story -- an old, old, old story, too -- requires some laborious exposition and development. Each of the stars -- Goldie Hawn, Diane Keaton, …
Matrimonial, as opposed to occupational, 9 to 5, with three high-wattage actresses exacting rah-rah revenge on the husbands who dumped them for younger women. The tripartite story -- an old, old, old story, too -- requires some laborious exposition and development. Each of the stars -- Goldie Hawn, Diane Keaton, …