...could make me like FRIENDS WITH MONEY, which was seriously off key. I just didn't get it. I mean, I get the title, but the movie was mostly nonsensible.
Set in LA, it's the story of 4 friends, 3 married and with money (and now I'm wondering, is that some sort of not so subtle social commentary?) and one without (Jennifer Aniston). The married friends are a clothing designer (Frances McDormand) married to a fey but not gay guy, some sort of family money (Joan Cusack), and half of a husband and wife screenwriting team (Catherine Keener). Each was essentially a selfish bitch in her own right (they were so annoying and interchangeable that I never could get their names straight) who spent most of the ride home from any group event talking about one or all of the other's husbands (or, in the case of single Jennifer, bad life choices). Meanwhile, the one without money deserved to be that way: a pot-smoking underachieving housecleaner who quit her private-school teaching job because the parents were annoying. I hated them all and -- I'll go ahead and say it -- wanted them to die in a wildfire or earthquake or some other California natural disaster, which sounds harsh but in retrospect seems really too good for them.