New York novelist Beth (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) has been working for years on the follow-up to her somewhat successful memoir, sharing countless drafts with her approving, supportive husband Don (Tobias Menzies). Beth’s world quickly unravels when she overhears Don admitting to her brother-in-law that, actually, he doesn’t like the new book.
Acclaimed writer-director Nicole Holofcener returns with a keenly observed, witty film that delicately skewers its sharply drawn, imperfect characters’ insecurities, privilege, and narcissism. Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Tobias Menzies lead a uniformly superb, brilliantly funny cast, as they pull everyone around them into the fallout of navigating whether loving someone also requires loving their work.
