Review of Book Club

Book Club (I) (2018)
7/10
four older women re-discover sex
12 September 2018
Wow, a movie where four older women have leads.

This is a story of four women of a certain age who have a book club. The hot, sexy hotel owner Vivian (Jane Fonda) decides they will all read "Fifty Shades of Gray," though the rest of the women (Candice Bergen, Mary Steenburgen, Diane Keaton) object.

They soon find themselves glued to the book and going for a semblance of a love life. Carol (Steenburgen) tries to get her husband (Craig Nelson) interested again; Sharon (Bergen), a federal judge, tries online dating, and Diane (Keaton) flirts with a man (Andy Garcia) on a plane. In the meantime, an old love (Don Johnson) comes into Vivian's life - she resists because she's afraid of being hurt.

Lots of laugh out loud moments in this film as well as poignant ones, with Fonda, at the age of 80, outrageously gorgeous and Bergen having the funniest role.

The moral of the story is, it's never too late. If you don't want to be put out to pasture, then don't go. And looking at Fonda, I guess 80 is the new 50.
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