Friends with Money Page #2

Synopsis: Four women friends: three are wealthy and married plus there's Olivia, a former teacher who's now a maid. The marriages are in various states of health: Franny and Matt are happy and very rich. Christine and David write screenplays together, are remodeling their house, and argue. Jane is angry all the time and Aaron, who's an attentive husband, strikes everyone as gay. Franny sets up Olivia with a friend of hers, Mike, a personal trainer, and Olivia takes him with her to a couple of housecleaning jobs. A benefit dinner for ALS, an awkward guy named Marty whose place Olivia cleans, and a French maid's outfit figure in the story. Is there more to life than its problems?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director(s): Nicole Holofcener
  2 wins & 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.8
Metacritic:
68
R
Year:
2006
88 min
1,475 Views


-It's a fact.

-How is that actually possible?

-I don't know.

I guess if you didn't really

wanna see it, it could be avoided.

Oh, God, it is so sad.

Should we give Olivia money?

Oh, no. No, not again.

Well, I feel bad.

She's cleaning houses.

Well, it's her choice. I mean,

she could be doing something else.

I know, but....

Should we hire her?

To clean our hou--? Are you crazy?

Our house?

God, no.

I bet she'd get really stoned

and become a cleaning maniac.

-I bet she's really good.

-Yeah.

No, no, no. That's much worse

than giving her money.

No. No way.

Hello?

Hello?

I'm kind of sick of modern.

I swear to God, I feel like as soon

as we did it, everybody else did too.

You have good taste.

Or else I'm incredibly trendy.

I think it should be very minimalist.

-A minimalist family room?

-Yeah.

You know, just the necessities.

Beige, gray...

...maybe a shock of color somewhere,

like an orange lamp in the corner...

...or something like that, you know?

So all the cleaning supplies

are under the sink in the kitchen.

-Guess I'm pretty messy.

-No. That's okay.

I mean, that's what I'm here for.

This is the kitchen.

I don't have a dishwasher.

So can you come on Mondays?

Yeah. Mondays are good.

And how much do you charge?

Well, let's see.

About $65.

I was kind of hoping for 50.

I don't usually charge that little.

Right.

-Okay.

-Really?

Yeah.

All right. Thank you.

How much farther

up my ass can you get?

-F*** you!

-You're buying fruit!

Sad, sad, sad.

So this guy is showing me

his disgusting house...

...which clearly

he's self-conscious about.

Then he has the nerve

to ask me to take less money.

-What did you say?

-I said okay.

-Why? Olivia.

-Because--

If this guy is so pathetic he has

to haggle, I should just do it.

I mean,

that guy's worse off than I am.

Or you are too scared

to stick to your price.

God, I don't understand how you can

clean somebody else's toilet.

I can barely touch my own.

-You don't touch your own.

-I know it.

Now, let me ask you a question.

-What's with your hair?

-What do you mean?

Well, I mean...

...is that goop or is that just dirty?

No, I guess it's dirty.

-It doesn't look good.

-lf I wash it too much, it dries it out.

I don't wanna talk anymore.

Gonna get a sample.

-Jane?

-Hey.

-Olivia, this is Maya.

-Hi, Maya. How you doing?

Your clothes are everywhere.

Seen them at Barneys.

Yeah, we're doing well.

Hey, congratulations.

-Obviously, you had your baby.

-Yeah. Yeah.

Jane, Olivia, this is Tal.

-Tal?

-Hi.

We had the hardest time

agreeing on a name.

What if he turns out short, Maya?

You know, we actually thought about

that. My husband is kind of short.

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Nicole Holofcener

Nicole Holofcener is an American film and television director and screenwriter. She has directed five feature films, including Friends with Money and Enough Said as well as various television series. more…

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