TV Guide: Nicole Holofcener

Video: Friends With Money

iTunes — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 02:12:15 -0500

Jennifer Aniston, Catherine Keener, Frances McDormand and Joan Cusak star in the story of four best friends whose comfortable lives are thrown off balance as the realities of early middle age set in. It paints a painfully hilarious portrait of modern life in the class-sensitive West side of Los Angeles. Written and directed by Nicole Holofcener (Lovely and Amazing), Friends With Money was the Opening Night Selection at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and is being hailed as "Terrific" (Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times), "Acutely perceptive and slyly quick-witted" (Allison Benedikt, Chicago Tribune).

Video: Lovely & Amazing

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 01:46:43 -0500

Nicole Holofcener, writer/director of the critically acclaimed Walking and Talking, shifts her focus from New York to Los Angeles for her second feature, Lovely & Amazing. Jane Marks (Brenda Blethyn of Secrets and Lies) is a middle-aged woman who's about to undergo liposuction. She has three daughters. Michelle (Catherine Keener) is a cynical, self-involved, would-be artist in an unhappy marriage. Elizabeth is a struggling actress who constantly takes in stray dogs. Her insecurities about her attractiveness come to the fore when she blows a screen test with a big movie star, Kevin (Dermot Mulroney). The youngest of the Marks sisters, Annie (Raven Goodwin), is an overweight eight-year-old African-American girl whose birth mother was an addict. Jane has adopted Annie, and is determined to provide her with a better life. Jane has a crush on her suave surgeon (Michael Nouri of Flashdance), but her family is thrown into chaos when complications arise during her outpatient procedure, and she's forced to stay in the

Photo: Jennifer Aniston, Catherine Keener and Nicole Holofcener - The 2006 Sundance Film Festival "Friends with Money" portraits, January 21, 2006

courtesy Jeff Vespa/WireImage.com — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 00:00:00 -0500

Jennifer Aniston, Catherine Keener, Nicole Holofcener

Photo: Jason Isaacs, Jennifer Aniston, Catherine Keener and Nicole Holofcener with (front row) Greg Germann, Scott Caan and Simon McBurney - The 2006 Sundance Film Festival, January 21, 2006

courtesy Jeff Vespa/WireImage.com — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 00:00:00 -0500

Jason Isaacs, Jennifer Aniston, Catherine Keener, Nicole Holofcener, Greg Germann, Scott Caan, Simon McBurney, 2006 Sundance Film Festival