Friends With Money

Friends With Money (2006)

  • 71% of critics liked it
    (150 reviews)

  • 37% of users liked it
    (76,777 ratings)

A single woman envies the security of her married friends, while they in turn dream of her freedom in this comedy drama. Olivia (Jennifer Aniston) is a single woman in her mid-thirties who feels she's reached a crossroads in her life. Unhappy with her career as a teacher, Olivia quits and takes… More

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R,
Directed By
Written By
Nicole Holofcener
Genres
Drama, Art House & International, Comedy
In Theaters
Apr 7, 2006 Wide
On DVD
Aug 29, 2006
Sony Pictures Classics

Critic Reviews

  • David Ansen, Newsweek

    This delicious, seriocomic tale of four friends in affluent, liberal, west L.A. grappling with midlife crises, metrosexual spouses and household remodeling takes on an avoided subject: money, and how it affects our relationships.

  • Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com

    This is a dense and sophisticated work about mortality, materialism, madness, jealousy and pity a movie in which the fabulous duds are ripped off the "Sex and the City" gals and they're left teetering on the edge of the abyss...

  • Jessica Winter, Time Out

    As a creator of characters, Holofcener has strong instincts for emblematic situations and telling habits, yet she takes a reticent approach to development -- she observes her subjects closely, but doesn't necessarily interpret.

  • David Edelstein, New York Magazine

    Holofcener builds scenes around motifs that resonate marvelously.

  • Stanley Kauffmann, The New Republic

    It engages us from beginning to end without strong narrative, or narratives. It lives through the quality of Holofcener's dialogue and the performances that she has drawn from her actors.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Julie B


    One of those "seems so real you feel like a voyeur" flicks. I had a hard time believing Jennifer Aniston as a sad sack, but the rest of the cast was solid.

  • Bethany M


    It was ok. Nothing really that special or outstanding. Dissapointing since I love Jennifer Aniston.

  • Jennifer X


    Friends With Money has much more of a bite than other Holofcener films, it's sort of a nice remix on her themes. But it also makes me a little bit depressed.

  • Steven C


    Nicole Holofcener's "Friends with Money" is THE zeitgeist film for the 00s. It achieves that status because it was never trying to achieve it. This is so sharply observed, rings true in every scene, so deftly acted and so perfectly plotted that it captures the very… More

  • Alice S


    Every character is so well-developed. Every nothing-fight, every performance, every funny and sad moment, is perfectly paced under Holofcener's direction. I don't think Jennifer Aniston is a GREAT actress, but I do find her likable. This role is certainly one of her best.… More

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