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44
Viewer score based on 332 votes.

Critic Score

78
Critics' score based on 35 reviews.
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The film had an undertone of saddness that most people have and the characters expressed scene by scene. Real people with conflicting points of view... that eventually leads towards an emotioal resolution. Full Review

June 27,2010
Haygoh

Deep drama about alot of subjects. Mainly guilt. Excellent cast. Remember the Aunt Meg character from the movie "Twister" played by Lois... ith. She has a nice role in "Please Give" too. New York City people might relate to characters better, that is where it was filmed. Full Review

June 12,2010
Visornotes

Please skip! Great cast BUT very disappointing story (well actually no story!). Really wanted to like this movie but it goes nowhere. No depth. no... ason to watch. We left and said why did we bother go. So save you money and see something else. Full Review

May 31,2010
Lesvivian

I can see why reviewers love this movie. It lends itself to critical acclaim. For me, the viewing public, if one were in college and your English... eacher asked you to write an examination of "taking and giving," a simpler student might write "one person needs a kidney and another gives him their kidney." That certainly would cover the subject. However, if a more erudite student wrote the same precis, it might be this interesting, but not compelling story. It's as simple as that. A tale of giving and taking. Full Review

May 20,2010
Duke de WF
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Critic Reviews

This gorgeous film, always tender and sometimes dark, is a deeply resonant comic drama that's concerned with nothing less than life, death, love, sex, guilt and the urban logic of mortality.Full Review

Joe Morgenstern
Wall Street Journal

Some people might find it distasteful to make a movie about guilty rich folks who give themselves permission to splurge. Others will rightly appreciate the honesty.Full Review

Noel Murray
The Onion (A.V. Club)

In Please Give, the sharp-eyed filmmaker sends her vibrant representative out into the world to explore what it means for a woman to be lucky and still feel itchy. The report has the resonant ring of truth.Full Review

Lisa Schwarzbaum
Entertainment Weekly

With her new film, the poignant and funny Please Give, Holofcener is at the top of her game.Full Review

Kenneth Turan
Los Angeles Times

Please Give is a moral comedy that feels at times like one of the late Eric Rohmer’s deceptively breezy miniatures, or a mid-period Woody Allen movie minus the fussiness.Full Review

Ty Burr
Boston Globe
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