Book Club is a film that won't win any major awards and it won't be one of the years greatest, but if you can sit down and enjoy it for what it is, then I think you'll like it.
It stars Jane Fonda, Diane Keaton, Candice Bergen, and Mary Steenbergen. The supporting cast includes Andy Garcia, Don Johnson, Richard Dreyfuss, and Alicia Silverstone. So obviously we have a good bit of talent here. And I'll say that I definitely enjoyed the cast and I thought they all did a great job, no one phoned in it. That really is this films biggest positive, the cast. The actors have a really good chemistry that flows well, they're all just such talented people. If the cast had been full of other leads I don't think I would've liked the film at all. The script could have been better, not gonna lie. The material the cast had to work with wasn't great, but they made it work.
There are funny moments and I give the writers credit for that, but if I'm being honest it was the cast that made those moments funny. There were serious moments too of course, and they worked overall, maybe a tad too cheesy at times but I was expecting the stereotypical stuff to an extent. I'll say that overall I did have a good time with Book Club, it is not great or monumental, but if you're looking for a movie to sit back with a glass of wine and just enjoy, then I'd suggest this. And even though yes it might've been stereotypical to do, I loved seeing all these older women find love again.
