Please Give deserves your money!

Saw Please Give on a bit of a whim, which seems to be the best way to find a true gem.

I'm not very good at figuring out the meaning of things, so the interview I heard with Catherine Keener a week or so before I saw the movie turned out to be really helpful. In a nutshell, Keener said it's about middle-class guilt. Her characters' business involves buying furniture on the cheap from the families of people who've just died and then marking it up like crazy for her store in Manhattan. She and her husband and daughter have a very comfortable life and yet, right outside their front door are the poor and homeless. The guilt is killing her.

Here's the bottom line: you like crazy, rude old people? You like great actors like Catherine Keener, Oliver Platt and Amanda Peet and witty, insightful, funny writing? You like movies that feel like real life and don't wrap up everything with a nice big bow at the end? Then I think you'll like Please Give.