Crush
Starring: Andie MacDowell.
Crush is being touted as the Bridget Jones’s Diary for the over 40s. I’d like to correct everyone right now. Sure it’s funny but it has some quite nasty things to say about female friendships at the same time.
Crush is a quite funny film about three female 40 somethings who are on the prowl. They meet once a week to compete for “saddest” dating story of the week. Police Officer Molly is having trouble being an older single mother. Janine is a slim gorgeous doctor in private practice who just can’t find Dr.Right, and Kate (Andie MacDowell) is headmistress of a school who seems to be fighting off the idea of ending up with the local minister. Everything goes along hilariously until Kate has an unexpected romp in a graveyard after a funeral with a 20 something ex-student. This soon turns into a serious relationship, much to the dismay of her two friends. This is where the film changes from being an excellent comedy about being in your 40s and looking for love, to having something very dark to say about female friendships. The two friends contrive to show Kate the error of her ways, with tragic results. Oh, but they all stay friends (with friends like these…), and I suppose some things work out in the end.
The ReelBuzz: Excellent for the first half, very sad toward the end.
ESther Speight
