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Nicole Holofcener’s (Lovely & Amazing) spiky comedy of liberal guilt ultimately reveals itself as a perceptive, rounded portrait of a handful of middle-class Manhattan women, bound together by family ties and real estate envy.

Kate (Catherine Keener) and Alex (Oliver Platt) run a successful vintage furniture business, fend off the demands of their feisty unhappy teenage daughter, and watch the comings and goings in the place next door: it will be theirs to expand into once the snarly old woman (crackingly funny Ann Guilbert) who’s their tenant either moves out or dies. The two grand-daughters (Rebecca Hall, Amanda Peet) who visit the old grouch, one willingly, one not so, complete the picture. 

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