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I think that the movie "Friends with Money" is a total waste of good time and money.
I am a big fan of the TV series FRIENDS, so hearing that Jennifer Aniston had a new movie, I agreed to watch it with my sister. My first impression on the movie as being a bit dull but entertaining nonetheless, was dead wrong! It was completely boring, draggy and lame. It took forever to get to the point - a viewer can only wait for the "excitement" for so long. I think that because of the movie, I became too tired to fall asleep. I had to sit through what seemed like a day - it was one hour and thirty minutes, of a story that was soon forgotten.

The movie revolves around a friendship of four Los Angeles women. Franny (Joan Cusack) is a wealthy housewife who dotes on her bland husband (Greg Germann) and children. Jane (Frances McDormand) is a successful but oddly dissatisfied fashion designer married to a remarkable husband, Aaron (Simon McBurney), whose interest in clothes and rather feminine manner suggest to some that he’s gay. Christine (Catherine Keener) is a screenwriter who works with her husband (Jason Isaacs); there’s a growing sense of unease between them. Olivia (Jennifer Aniston) is the odd woman out. She’s not at all well-off, and has quit her teaching position at a posh school where she felt out-of-place to become a cleaning lady. She also has an unhappy love life; she’s still pining away for a married man she had a brief affair with, and when Franny fixes her up with her cocky personal trainer (Scott Caan), she allows him to dominate her. The other women worry over her (and themselves and one another, too) as their various personal problems work themselves out.
-synopsis from online site

The movie was somehow not credible. You have three rich women who have a friend who is a maid. The movie never explains how they are friends, it just happens, apparently, in the city of Los Angeles. It lacked warmth and edge. Though believable to happen, the movie stayed more of a plan than a story. It failed to capture the audience - well, me, at least, to learn to love the characters. Though I must say, that there were a few amusing lines and scenes, these were not enough to lighten the movie or carry it towards success. Aside from that, the movie gives nothing to the viewer. In a way, it just ends. The viewer is left hanging on the edge, not knowing whether it was good or just plain weird.

As I mentioned earlier, the movie is forgettable, so I had to find a summary of the story somewhere. While reading it, I realized that it was a happy ending. While watching, I did not understand that the character found love and finally became happy. This part of the movie was vague and I did not notice a difference in Aniston's character. Little is explained and resolved in the movie - and this was very frustrating.

It seemed that the four friends had too much problems and the editing would shift from one character to the other - that it became sad and a burden to watch.

Because I disliked it that much, I didn't even bother to notice the mise-en-scene, the cinematography, the editing and the musical score. But I doubt that it was any good, because it never once caught my attention resulting in me, rarely, even looking at the screen.