One of the plotlines of Please Give, writer-director Nicole Holofcener’s gentle drama about charity, family and New York life, resolves with a mother (Catherine Keener) buying her daughter (Sarah ...

Filmmaker Nicole Holofcener burst onto the independent film scene in the mid 90’s with her critically acclaimed dramedy Walking and Talking. The film garnered an Independent Spirit Award nomination ...

Kate, the vintage-furniture dealer played by Catherine Keener in Please Give, writer-director Nicole Holofcener’s astute tale of ownership and guilt in the modern age, is a sucker for the needy. Her ...

But Kate, increasingly, can't live with the idea that she's an exploiter. She's ashamed when the old woman's granddaughter, Rebecca -- the film's second protagonist, played by Rebecca Hall -- responds ...

In Catherine Keener, writer-director Nicole Holofcener has found a warm, throaty, appealingly bedraggled agent for expressing her up-to-the-minute confusions. Their fourth collaboration is Please Give ...

In "Please Give," Sundance regular Nicole Holofcener has made perhaps the ultimate New York movie. By Kirk Honeycutt, The Associated Press More Sundance reviews PARK CITY — In “Please Give,” Sundance ...

Writer-director Nicole Holofcener has a gift for converting small, everyday situations into the kind of gentle comedy that some viewers relate to easily, and others find too subtle by half. In ...

The difficulty of finding lasting happiness informs every frame of writer-director Nicole Holofcener’s comedy-drama Please Give. As she did previously with Lovely And Amazing and Friends With Money, ...

This is the sort of film where a mother won't fork out dosh to a teenage daughter who would kill for a pair of jeans but thinks nothing of passing out cash and/ or food to the homeless - at least one ...

Writer-director Nicole Holofcener‘s decision to follow 2006’s “Friends With Money” with a comedy called “Please Give” might suggest an all-too-timely preoccupation with the current economic crisis.