Wow - I went out of my way to see this, thinking "Blythe Danner - of course I'll go!" What a total waste of time and talents - mine, hers and the whole cast and crew. (And did we have to make her look like some kind of Diane Keaton has-been?) Here's what I learned from this movie: if you're an older woman living in Southern Ca, you better have a tonload of money. It's needed to: 1) run the house that looks like an ad for Pottery Barn, including a pool and pool boy, 2) land the loaded boyfriend who fake-smokes expensive cigars, drives a fancy car and ginormous yacht, and lives at the expensive senior home with three of the most boring, empty, "senior" female friends ever written for the screen, or for that matter, any medium.
The tonload of money would also be needed to finance the constant drinking - or should I say, guzzling -that goes on in this film. Virtually every scene (minus the vet and the hospital)involves alcohol as an unpaid extra.
At first I thought the movie was going to deal with the drinking - (why did I think that? I must have been drinking)
The relationships between the protagonist and her 2-scene boyfriend, her daughter and her friends are so shallow as to be embarrassing and ultimately depressing. Between her and the pool boy was only slightly better. Particularly problematic is the fact that this relationship is also centered around alcohol. The result is that she can't help but come across as a shallow alcoholic, happy to go with the first person who says "I like you" and drinks.
As for the boyfriend - "surprising" a woman you've never met and know nothing about, by taking her out to sea, in your boat, alone, all day w/o bothering to find out if that in fact is something she'd remotely want to do - struck me as insensitive at best and creepily controlling at worst. But since whoever she is, is so buried, and there's plenty of alcohol on board, no problem! After he "leaves", all she has left are her terminally boring friends, adopting an old dog with a couple more years and going to the karaoke bar and drinking until it's her turn. Her only daughter is a total non-entity to her. This was nearly as bad as The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.
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