White Liberal Guilt Is Hilarious!
By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Trailers | Comments (12)
Below is the trailer for Nicole Holofcener’s Please Give, which as usual for Holofcener, features Catherine Keener. It also stars Oliver Platt, Amanda Peet, and Rebecca Hall. It’s about a family waiting out an elderly woman’s death so that they can expand their apartment into a dream home. Things are complicated when they become friends with the family of the elderly woman. It also appears to be about white liberal guilt, too, and the fumbling of it.
The trailer looks pretty great. It’s the first feature project from the Lovely and Amazing writer/director since 2006’s Friends with Money. It opens in limited release on April 30th.
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Posted by: Jelinas at March 15, 2010 11:57 AM
Hahaha, this looks ossom. I loved that part in the beginning with the "homeless" dude.
Funny story: a friend of mine, who's Korean, was down in Skid Row one Saturday, giving out food and stuff to the homeless dudes out there. There was also a Korean church there that day, a bunch of old Korean grandmas handing out tracts and bread and saying "Jeejus is da bread ub ripe, hallelujah" (Jesus is the bread of life, hallelujah) because that was all the English they knew.
My buddy (whom I call G-Fab, short for "ghetto fabulous") was dressed in his favorite warm-ups and faded Laker t-shirt with the stretched-out collar and a hole in the armpit. After he had run out of food to give out, this one homeless dude started talking to him, and he mentioned that he was hungry. So G-Fab decided to ask the Korean ladies if they could spare some bread for his new friend.
He went over and asked the lady for some bread. She asked if he was Korean, and he replied, in Korean, that he was. She gasped, and her eyes filled with tears, and she loaded him down with more bread than he could carry.
It wasn't until later that he realized that she thought he was homeless, and was moved to tears by the sight of one of her own reduced to vagrancy at such a young age.
I guess that doesn't mean much if you don't know G-Fab.
So, Catherine Keener, huh? And I love Oliver Platt. This movie looks good. I think I'll see it, if I don't give my ten bucks to a homeless Korean dude first.