Former Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip star Amanda Peet co-stars alongside Catherine Keener and Rebecca Hall in Please Give, Nicole Holofcener’s perceptive take on modern life‘s contradictions, good intentions and shaky moral bearings.
Kate (Catherine Keener) has a lot on her mind – there‘s the ethics problem of buying furniture on the cheap at estate sales and marking it up at her trendy Manhattan store (how much markup can she get away with?), there’s the materialism problem of not wanting her teenage daughter to want the expensive things that Kate wants and there‘s the marriage problem of sharing a partnership in parenting, business, and life with her husband Alex (Oliver Platt) but sensing doubt nibbling at the foundations.
And finally there‘s Kate‘s free-floating 21st century malaise—the problem of how to live well and be a good person when poverty, homelessness, and sadness are always right outside the door.
Plus, there‘s the neighbors: cranky, elderly Andra (Ann Guilbert) and the two granddaughters who look after her (Rebecca Hall and Amanda Peet).
As Kate, Alex, and Abby interact with the people next door, with each other, and with their New York surroundings, a complex mix of animosity, friendship, deception, guilt, and love plays out with both sharp humour and pathos.
Please Give arrives in UK cinemas on 18th June 2010