Meryl Streep plays a Pulitzer-Prize winning writer, Alice Hughes, who is afraid to fly. When she wins an award that’s to be granted in England, Alice finagles a berth on a cruise ship along with accommodations for two of her College friends and her nephew.
The trip to England is filled with Candice Bergen’s character, Roberta, seething about Alice using her life as the key character in Alice’s most popular book. Susan (Dianne Wiest) is the Voice of Reason as the three friends try to connect again like they did in College.
There’s some publishing shenanigans, some confusion about who the mysterious guy reading The Odyssey is, and a silly romance. All in all, Let Them All Talk is a frothy cruise to nowhere. GRADE: B-
Some day they will make a good movie about older women, using older women. There are many decent novels they could draw from: Barbara Pym and Elizabeth Taylor for two. Here is a bunch. https://bookriot.com/novels-about-older-women/
Patti, LET THEM ALL TALK is not a good movie about older women, although I liked the older women in it.
What Patti said. This got lousy reviews. The only halfway decent one I can remember was with Diane Keaton and Jack Nicholson, SOMETHING’S GOTTA GIVE, though I am not generally a fan of Nancy Meyers’s films. I did like the English CALENDAR GIRLS.
Jeff, same here. I liked SOMETHING’S GOTTA GIVE and CALENDAR GIRLS, too. LET THEM ALL TALK rambled around the cruise ship too much.
From Patti’s list: THE LEISURE SEEKER was filmed with Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland. We saw it in Florida.
OLIVE KITTERIDGE was an HBO miniseries with Frances McDormand.
STILL ALICE won Julianne Moore an Oscar.
I really liked MEET ME AT THE MUSEUM. I’d be surprised if it wasn’t made into a movie.
Cicely Tyson (now 95!) won an Emmy for AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MISS JANE PITMAN in 1974.
Hallmark Hall of Fame did a nice version of BREATHING LESSONS with James Garner and Joanne Woodward in 1994.
Jeff, Diane’s Book Club read OLIVE KITTERIDGE and then saw the movie all together (pre-Covid). Diane and I saw STILL ALICE after reading the book (very sad).
I dunno; this sounds like a perfectly good chick flick for your generation, George.
Dan, LET THEM ALL TALK is certainly a Chick Flick but Steven Soderbergh had too much going on for my taste.
Streep, ptui!
Bob, Meryl Streep has been nominated for 20 Oscars (and she won three).
So? She’s still a jackass!
Bob, have you heard about the new Paul McCartney CD where McCartney plays all the instruments?
No.