Please Give

Indie, Dry
3 stars
Downer. Catherine Keenan (40 Year Old Virgin) stars as a vintage furniture store owner who acquires the furniture by purchasing the merchandise cheaply from estate sales and not letting the sellers know of the true value of the pieces. She feels so terribly guilty for taking advantage of the sellers that she is always giving her money to homeless people and wants to do volunteer work. Oliver Platt plays her husband, Rebecca Hall (Vicki Christina Barcelona) and Amanda Peet play daughters of their elderly neighbor, Ann Morgan Guilbert (“The Nanny”). Keenan and Platt also purchased the elderly neighbor’s condo and are waiting for her to die so they can expand their condo. Their poor pimply teenage daughter (Sarah Steele of Spanglish) has her own self esteem issues. Not a bad film, but not a happy one either.