Fridae

Rumor has it that this movie is not going to be good. The truth
is it is absolutely hilarious. It has a well-written that brims
with irrelevant wit, as if Woody Allen has suddenly donned a female
persona to revive his fledging career. In fact Jennifer Aniston
in the title role of a neurotic New York Times journalist
has never been funnier after Friends. And though Shirley
MacLaine was Golden-Globe nominated for In Her Shoes, her
grandma role in this film is equally funny, if not more so.

There are many other reasons to praise this movie, which starts
off with Sarah (Aniston) on the way home to attend her younger sister's
wedding. She begins to question her own comfortable — but
not exactly earth-shattering — relationship with Jeff (sexy
Mark Ruffalo). Jeff (Mark Ruffalo), an attorney, seems to know exactly
where he's going in life. Sarah doesn't have a clue. She writes
obituaries and wedding announcements for the New York Times.
She also begins to question where she came from.

Blame that on grandma Katharine (Shirley MacLaine), so vain that
she prefers to be called Sarah's mother's mother. Katharine lets
it slip that Sarah's mom ran off to Mexico about 30 years ago to
be with the notorious womanizer Beau Burroughs (Kevin Costner) a
week before she married Sarah's father, Earl (Richard Jenkins).
After a little basic math, Sarah frets that she might in fact not
even be her father's daughter. And there's one more juicy morsel.
Beau is the same guy that mother's mother Katharine seduced several
decades ago.

If this isn't scandalous enough for you, I don't know what is.
Rumor Has It is a fine comedy in a long while. Go watch.